Hello,
The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 3.2.0.
Thank you to everyone who tested beta.
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 3.2.0 (from the NEWS file):
Look at the ReleaseNotes and ChangeLog file for more details.
Release Notes for 3.2.0:
* Support for multiple simultaneous writes to storage devices
o Can write to all available drives in parallel.
o Works only with the new changer API.
o Useful if two or more volumes are used in a single run.
o dump direct to tape can be scheduled any time during the
run, previously they were done sequencially after all dump
to holding disk.
o enabled with the new 'taper-parallel-write' configuration
option.
* Support for LEOM in storage devices
o allows splitting without partial parts, saving space.
o much more efficient, since parts need not be cached on disk
in most cases.
* new, simpler splitting commands in the tapetype section
o part-size, part-cache-type, part-cache-dir, part-cache-max-size
o see amanda.conf(5) for details
* Amanda server configuration file changes (amanda.conf)
o new configuration keyword:
+ taper-parallel-write -- How many drive amanda can
write to in parallel.
o deprecated configuration keywords:
+ amrecover_do_fsf
+ amrecover_check_label
* The CONFIG parameter to amidxtaped is now required; this means
that versions of amrecover older than 2.4.3 will be unable to
recover from servers running Amanda-3.2 and later.
* The new dumptype and global parameters 'recovery-limit' can be
used to limit which hosts may recover from a particular DLE. See
amanda.conf(5) and amanda-auth(7) for more information.
* Several old changers have been removed - these changers will work
with Amanda for the forseeable future, but are no longer included
in the distribution.
o chg-chio
o chg-chs
o chg-iomega
o chg-juke
o chg-mcutil
o chg-mtx
o chg-null (use the new "chg-null:")
o chg-rait (use the new "chg-rait:{dev1,dev2}")
o chg-rth
o chg-scsi-chio
o chg-scsi
* Amvault is much improved, but still experimental:
o supports assembling split parts on the source volume and
re-splitting them on the destination
o supports filtering dumps with the same syntax as amfetchdump
o a --fulls-only option skips all incremental dumps on the source
o an --export option tries to move tertiary volumes to
import/export slots when completed
o command-line syntax has changed incompatibly; see manpage or
'amvault --help'
* Rewritten and improved:
o amoverview
o amcheckdump
Jean-Louis Martineau
