As promised, we have the first beta version of Amanda-3.2.0 out today. It's available from
http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php (binary packages; version 3.2.0beta1) http://amanda.org/download.php (tarball; under "Development") The more testing this release can get, the better. And the more that can happen before I leave (two weeks from today) the better for Jean-Louis' sanity. In particular, please test-drive the new features. If you can email the list to let everyone know you're testing, and of course let us know whether things succeed or fail, that would be great. As always, I'm in #amanda on freenode if you'd like interactive help testing or debugging, or just want to yell at me for introducing so many new bugs. - multiple simultaneous tapers (!!) This is a big one, obviously. See http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Write_to_Multiple_Volumes_in_Parallel - LEOM support (lossless splitting) If you're using tapes, you will need to set the LEOM property to TRUE to take advantage of this. If you're using vtapes, it's enabled by default. In concert with the new splitting parameters, this can make your backups faster and eliminate the need for part caches. http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda-devices.7.html - new, simpler splitting parameters These are part-cache-size, part-cache-type, part-cache-dir, and part-cache-max-size. They are described in amanda.conf(5), including in a special section at the very end. http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda.conf.5.html - massive amvault improvements Give it a whirl! http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Copy_Data_from_Volume_to_Volume - retirement of most old changers Not much to test here, but FYI.. - per-client recovery permissions A last-minute addition! See http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Limit_the_Hosts_That_Can_Recover_a_DLE I'd appreciate not only a test-drive, but some additional code review here, since it's a security-sensitive change: http://github.com/zmanda/amanda/commit/8b874f92df6ee17a335a1ba9089bf94d43a09269 - SSL authentication this didn't make it in yet, although we're considering adding it during the beta period. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
