Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
This looks great. If there were one or two things to brag about in
this release, what are they? How can we show them off?
Dustin
chg-aggregate (man amanda-changers)
Support for removable hard drive in chg-disk (man amanda-changers,
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Using_removable_hard_disk_changers_as_Virtual_tapes)
Both features allow to have more than one mount point for the removable
drive.
meta-label, useful for removable vtapes, it is the label of the hard drive.
barcode can automatically be included in the label.
A client can initiate a backup (useful for laptop).
I forgot to list one important feature, two new taperscan algorithms
(man amanda-taperscan):
oldest: this algorithm try to run through the volumes in the oldest order.
lexical: this algorithm try to run through the volumes in the natural
order.
Jean-Louis