New Amanda Community release 3.5.2 Has Arrived!
Hello Everyone, We at Zmanda are pleased to announce the 3.5.2 release of Amanda Community. URL: http://www.amanda.org/download.php What's New Experience enhanced tape handling capabilities with the new Amanda. The 3.5.2 version of Amanda will prevent unintentional deletions of data on tapes. Whether you want to implement a 3-2-1 backup rule or do a simple physical media backup, hands-down, tape media will become your reliable storage medium under all circumstances. If you have any other questions, reply to this email or write to us at cont...@zmanda.com<mailto:cont...@zmanda.com>. Open Source. Open Formats. Open APIs. -- Thanks & Regards, V J N Pavan Raj | Director, Corporate Development | BETSOL | pavan@betsol.com<mailto:pavan@betsol.com> | (M) 1.720.448.7099 | (O) 1.720.506.5534 |Check my availability (Calendar): HTML<https://calendly.com/pavanrajv> [w88EDKKwH3E8wBJRU5ErkJggg==] Confidentiality Notice | The information transmitted by this email is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed. This email may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, be aware that any use, review, re-transmission, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from all computers.
Re: Amanda.org Website Updates -- Amanda bugfix release?
Thanks for the feedback. I agree that a next release is critical. Our team looking in to the Amanda community will start working on a new release from first week of Jan 2021. Please expect more updates on the release next month. The team working on the website is different from the above team. I was able to get their time after a long negotiating battle __ and I don't want to lose their time. I will drive both the initiatives in parallel. For a new release, we would require all of your contributions. Chris (copied) will coordinate this effort. -- Thanks & Regards, V J N Pavan Raj | Director, Corporate Development | BETSOL | pavan@betsol.com | (M) 1.720.448.7099 | (O) 1.720.506.5534 |Check my availability (Calendar): HTML <https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/286f46fcf6044f1abe776b0adaadb...@betsol.com/6ee159d851d2418a9ec4dff86793cff29195139419567815637/calendar.html> <https://betsol.com/> On 12/3/20, 12:37 AM, "owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org on behalf of Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: WARNING: This email originated from outside of BETSOL. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Am 03.12.20 um 07:04 schrieb Nathan Stratton Treadway: > On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 00:26:08 +, Pavan Raj wrote: > I could probably get excited about a revamped amanda.org website > someday, but really getting a bugfix release out the door seems much > more important. > > v3.5.1 was released December 1, 2017. Since then a number of fixes for > bugs have been identified, but all those fixes are still not available > for atual use anywhere, except for the few custom patches being applied > by some distribution-specific maintainers. (There was an effort in > November 2019 to collect some of the patches into the Zmanda git repo, > but after that brief spurt nothing else happened.) > > Over the past couple of months we (here on this list) have identified > several pretty serious bugs and come up with some apparent workarounds, > but had no activity/help from Betsol developers in identifying the > underlying cause and finding correct fixes for those issues, let alone > in getting those fixes tested out and then incorportated into a release > so users can avoid those problems in the future. > > So as an urgent first step, I'd definitely be in favor of a 3.5.2 > release (and preferably a plan for subsequent minor releases coming down > the pike) before any effort is spent on a website refresh... I agree 100%. 3.5.1 is 3(!) years old now. And buggy. (sidenote: the font in the mockups isn't suited for technical documentation in my opinion) Stefan Confidentiality Notice | The information transmitted by this email is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed. This email may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, be aware that any use, review, re-transmission, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from all computers.
Amanda.org Website Updates
Hello Everyone, I would like to take a moment to thank all of you for your support and contributions to Amanda Community project. We would like to continue the momentum with the upgrades and plan for a new release. Previously with the community’s help, we migrated the source code to Git platform. As a next step, we would like to improve the website to address the security issues, modernize, and improve the usability. Even though Amanda Community is a superior product compared to lot of competitors, the website doesn’t make it apparent. The current website is from 2003 and it poses a lot of challenges for today’s needs. We tried reaching out to the domain owner/host (Omniscient Technologies) to discuss the website upgrade initiative but unfortunately we didn’t get any response. Given that, we would like to take up the initiative and update the current website. I would like to invite volunteers who are willing to spend time and resources on this task. We would like to improve • the look and feel of the website • security • SEO • the user documentation and website content • usability with the help of analytics A new logo and a wireframe for the home page to give a sense of direction that we can take within the constraints can be found at https://www.figma.com/file/TYonjW4rthJi3VlAkCOOdh/Amanda.org?node-id=0%3A1. I request the community members to share their feedback and ideas by Dec 11, 2020. -- Thanks & Regards, V J N Pavan Raj | Director, Corporate Development | BETSOL | mailto:pavan@betsol.com | (M) 1.720.448.7099 | (O) 1.720.506.5534 |Check my availability (Calendar): https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/286f46fcf6044f1abe776b0adaadb...@betsol.com/6ee159d851d2418a9ec4dff86793cff29195139419567815637/calendar.html Confidentiality Notice | The information transmitted by this email is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed. This email may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, be aware that any use, review, re-transmission, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from all computers.
