Hello,
The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the second beta release of
Amanda 2.6.0, the 2.6.0b2 release. It has a complete rewrite of the tape
handling code (Device API).
It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org or
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120
We hope to release the final 2.6.0 soon. We appreciate if you can test
it before the release, even a simple compilation can be useful to find
problem on some hardware/software, report all compilation warning.
Here's a list of the changes for release 2.6.0b1 (from the NEWS file):
Look at the ReleaseNotes and ChangeLog file for more details.
* configure --disable-shared doesn't work because perl modules
require shared libraries. Use configure --with-static-binaries to
build statically linked binaries.
* 'amverify' and 'amverifyrun' are deprecated and replaced with the
new, more flexible 'amcheckdump'
* 'amdd' and 'ammt' are deprecated.
* Some Amanda files are now installed in new "amanda/"
subdirectories: libraries are now installed in $libdir/amanda and
internal programs are now installed in $libexecdir/amanda. If you
mix 2.6.0 and earlier version with rsh/ssh auth, you need to add
an 'amandad_path' to the dumptype and to amanda-client.conf.
* The amandates file, previously at /etc/amandates, is now at
$localstatedir/amanda/amandates. You may want to move your
existing /etc/amandates when you upgrade Amanda.
* New 'amcryptsimple', 'amgpgcrypt' - encryption plugins based on gpg.
* New 'amserverconfig', 'amaddclient' - Initial Amanda configuration
tools these tools make assumptions, please see man page.
* Many bugs fixed and code rewrite/cleanup
* glib is required to compile and run amanda.
* Device API: pluggable interface to storage devices, supporting
tapes, vtapes, RAIT, and Amazon S3
* New perl modules link directly to Amanda, to support writing
Amanda applications in Perl.
* New 'local' security driver supports backups of the amanda server
without any network connection or other configuration.
* Almost 200 unit tests are available via 'make installcheck'.
* Amanda configuration file changes
o amanda.conf changes
+ flush-threshold-dumped
+ flush-threshold-scheduled
+ taperflush
+ device_property
+ usetimestamps default to yes
Jean-Louis
