Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the second beta release of Amanda 3.1.0, the 3.1.0beta2 release.
It can be downloaded from http://www.amanda.org (not yet available) or https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120 Please download and test it out - with luck, this will be the last beta before the final release! Changes since beta1: - several fixes to amcleanup - fixes to planner for bad-schedule errors - fix to taper for assertion failure - amreport reports total time spent dumping (including changer movement) - numerous other small bugfixes - see ChangeLog Changes since 2.6.1: * Deprecated old changers; see amanda-changers(7) for replacements. These changers are still available in the distribution, but will be removed in a future release. o chg-null o chg-zd-mtx o chg-rait o chg-disk o chg-multi * Although chg-zd-mtx is still supported, we recommend that all users upgrade to the more efficient chg-robot. See contrib/convert-zd-mtx-to-robot.sh for a useful conversion script. * Amanda server configuration file changes (amanda.conf) o deprecated configuration keywords: + label_new_tapes o keywords deprecated in 2.6.1: + rawtapedev + tapebufs + file-pad o new configuration keyword + autolabel -- replace label_new_tapes + columnspec -- can specify a precision. + order -- in script, to specify script order execution. + client_port -- in dumptype, to specify which port to connect on the client. + estimate -- in dumptype, can specify multiple estimate method. o accept 'define' keyword for defining an holdingdisk * Amanda client configuration file changes (amanda-client.conf) o new configuration keyword + debug_days -- how many days to keep debug files. + client_port -- use by amrecover, specify which port to connect on the server. * Removed compile-time default --with-changer-device: specify a device explicitly in amanda.conf instead * amtape behavior has changed: o 'device' subcommand removed o 'slot advance' subcommand removed o 'update' subcommand no longer displays each slot as it is updated, and is not supported by all changers o taperscan output has changed o new 'inventory' subcommand * amrmtape rewrite o use long option + --changer -- Specify which changer to use + --cleanup -- Remove logs and indexes associated with label + --dryrun -- do not update the original copies. + --erase -- Attempt to erase the data contained on the volume + --keep-label -- Do not remove label from the tapelist + --quiet -- Opposite of --verbose + --verbose -- List backups of hosts and disks that are being discarded. * amdevcheck o new --label option. o new --properties option. * Device API o changed wildcard setting for S3_BUCKET_LOCATION from "" to "*" o new 'ndmp:' device to write to a tape on an ndmp server. o new 'dvdrw:' device to write to a dvd drive. * Application API o new properties to many applications o amgtar + new ACLS, SELINUX and XATTRS properties o amsamba + Allow '\' in diskname and amandapass. + new ALLOW-ANONYMOUS property. o new applications: + ampgsql -- Backup PostgreSQL using continuous WAL archiving + amsuntar -- Backup filesytem with the SUN tar + amraw -- Backup only one directory entry * New taper, with DirectTCP support, changed tape and catalog format: o all dumpfiles are now F_SPLIT_DUMPFILE o all on-tape dumpfiles have numparts=-1, since it's no longer possible to calculate this value in advance o there is no logging or reporting of zero-byte, successful parts (this may cause gaps in filenums in the catalog) * Redesigned amreport o much more natural command-line interface (just run 'amreport $config') o experimental XML output * configuration override for dumptype works with inheritance. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
