Release of Amanda-3.4

[Jean-Louis Martineau]

Hello,

The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 3.4.

Source tarballs are available from

 * http://www.amanda.org
 * https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120

 Binaries for many systems are available 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 3.4 (from the NEWS file):
Look at the ReleaseNotes and ChangeLog file for more details.

 * Allow to put a dump on more than one storage
 * Allow to specify which DLE/level go to which storage
 * amdumpcan dothe vaulting operation (copy from one storage to another
   one)
 * Use shared memory to pass data between processes
 * A CRC is computed on the backup image and is verified on restore.
 * Run multiple backup inparallel, there is no lock preventing
   concurrent run.
 * Add letter based sequence to autolabel and meta-autolabel.
 * And 'includefile' directive for the disklist.
 * tapepool, tape are in pool
 * amanda.conf (index file can be kept sorted, compressed or uncompressed)
     o compress-index
     o sort-index
 * amanda.conf (interface section)
     o add a src-ip setting.
 * amanda.conf (dumptype section)
     o add a retry-dump setting.
     o add atag setting.
     o deprecate usetimestamps, it is always "yes"
 * amanda.conf (new policy section), define when a tape can be reuse or
   not.
     o A lot more powerful than the tapecycle setting.
     o retention-tapes
     o retention-days
     o retention-recover
     o retention-full
 * amanda.conf (new storage section), define how to operate each changer.
     o Many old global setting can be set differently for each storage.
     o autoflush
     o autolabel
     o comment
     o device-output-buffer-size
     o dump-selection (select which dle go to that storage)
     o eject-volume
     o erase-on-failure
     o erase-on-full
     o erase-volume
     o flush-threshold-dumped
     o flush-threshold-scheduled
     o interactivity
     o labelstr
     o max-dle-by-volume
     o meta-autolabel
     o policy
     o report-use-media
     o report-next-media
     o runtapes
     o set-no-reuse
     o tapepool
     o taperalgo
     o taperflush
     o taperscan
     o taper-parallel-write
     o tapetype
     o tpchanger
 * amanda.conf
     o labelstr can be a new MATCH-AUTOLABEL keyword, labelstr can use
       the autolabel variable.
     o storage (default storage), You can set multiple storage, all
       DLEs will be sent to all storages
     o amvault-storage (storage used by amvault)
 * amvault
     o deprecated option: --label-template, --dst-changer, --autolabel,
       they must be set in a storage section
     o new --dst-storage option to overwrite the default amvault-storage.
 * * amlabel
     o new --pool and --storage options.
 * * amrmtape
     o new --list-retention, --list-no-retention and
       --remove-no-retention options.
 * amtape
     o print the RetentionType in the inventory
 * amadmin
     o new 'retention' command'
 * amfetchdump
     o --init and --no-restore arguments.
 * s3 device
     o New READ-FROM-GLACIER and TRANSITION-TO-GLACIER properties, they
       allow to transition s3 objects to Glacier.
 * tapelist file
     o include POOL, STORAGE and CONFIG
     o you can share the same tapelist file across multiple config.
 * amgetconf
     o new --platform argument
     o new --distro argument
 * ambackup/ambackupd
     o new client ambackup program to start a backup of the client
     o new server service ambackupd
     o this protocol works even if the client is behind a NAT


Jean-Louis Martineau