Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.6.1. Thanks to everyone that tested 2.6.1b1 and 2.6.1b2 and provided feedback.
Source tarballs are available from * http://www.amanda.org * https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120 Binaries for many systems will be available soon 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 2.6.1 (from the NEWS file): Look at the ReleaseNotes and ChangeLog file for more details. * Application API: Allow to easily write wrappers around any backup program, see the 'amanda-applications' man page. o amgtar: Use GNU tar, it is a lot more configurable than the GNUTAR program. See 'amgtar' man page. o amstar: Use star to do a backup, it work only on a partition. See'amstar' man page. o amsamba: Use smbclient to backup a cifs share, see amsamba man page. o amzfs-sendrecv: Do a backup of a ZFS filesystem with 'zfs send'. * Script API: Allow to run script before and after amanda process, see the 'amanda-scripts' man page. o amzfs-snapshot: Do a snapshot of a ZFS filesystem, then 'amgtar'application will backup the snapshot. See 'amzfs-snapshot' man page. o script-email: Simple script to send email. see 'script-email' man page. * Changer API v2.0: perl-based changer interface supporting concurrent use of multiple devices and changers. o currently operating in "compatibility mode," calling old changershell scripts. o under active development. * Xfer API: generic library to move and filter data with maximal efficiency o can read from and write to arbitrary devices, files, etc. o only used in some applications. * Amanda archive format: A simple archive format that an application canuse to create backup image. * 'amarchiver' program to manipulate file in amanda archive format. * Many improvements to report better error message to user. * amtape subcommands 'slot prev' and 'slot last' are removed. * Dozens more perl libraries, with more stable interfaces. * Many bugs fixed and improvement. * amgetconf '--client' option to retrieve config from amanda-client.conf on a client. * Amanda configuration file changes o new application-tool section o new script-tool section o new device section o new changer section Jean-Louis martineau
