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The first beta of amanda-3.3.0 is available from
http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php (binary packages; version
3.3.0beta1)
http://amanda.org/download.php (tarball; under "Development")

The more testing this release can get, the better, try it.

New features are:

* chg-aggregate: new changer that use other changer sequentially.
* meta-volume
* Add meta label in tapelist file
* chg-disk:
o new NUM-SLOT property
o new AUTO-CREATE-SLOT property
o new REMOVABLE property
o new MOUNT property
o new UMOUNT property
o new UMOUNT-LOCKFILE property
o new UMOUNT-IDLE property
* Change in amanda.conf
o new meta-autolabel option
o autolabel can include org, config, barcode, meta in the label
o new client-name option in appication and script.
* application and script in amanda-client.conf can be used to set
default properties for application or script.
* amlabel
o the label argument is no longer required, an autolabel can
be generated
o new --meta option
o new --barcode option
o new --assign option
* amgtar, amstar: The path must be specified, it will not works with
a device.
* amrecover: decompression and decryption are now done on the client
if compression/encryption was done on the client.
* amtape: inventory print the current slot
* amanda.conf:
o autoflush have value "no|yes|all"
o script have single-execution setting.
o add pre-amcheck, post-amcheck, pre-estimate, post-estimate,
pre-backup and post-backup to execute-on of script.
o add taperscan and interactivity section.
o add 'server' value in recovery-limit.
o add dump-limit in a dumptype.
* amanda-client.conf
o add amdump-server setting.
* script are searched in $APPLICATION_DIR,
$CONFIG_DIR/<conf>/application
* and $CONFIG_DIR/application
* amservice
o add -s argument
o is also installed on client
* new amdumpd server service, if enable, it allow client to start a
backup of itself.
* new amdump_client program, it is use on client to start a backup
of itself

Jean-Louis

Am 31.03.2011 22:36, schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau:
The first beta of amanda-3.3.0 is available from
http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php (binary packages; version
3.3.0beta1)
http://amanda.org/download.php (tarball; under "Development")

For gentoo-users:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361533

Stefan

Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
This looks great. If there were one or two things to brag about in
this release, what are they? How can we show them off?

Dustin

chg-aggregate (man amanda-changers)
Support for removable hard drive in chg-disk (man amanda-changers,
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Using_removable_hard_disk_changers_as_Virtual_tapes)
Both features allow to have more than one mount point for the removable
drive.
meta-label, useful for removable vtapes, it is the label of the hard drive.
barcode can automatically be included in the label.
A client can initiate a backup (useful for laptop).

I forgot to list one important feature, two new taperscan algorithms
(man amanda-taperscan):
oldest: this algorithm try to run through the volumes in the oldest order.
lexical: this algorithm try to run through the volumes in the natural
order.

Jean-Louis

On Friday, April 01, 2011 12:02:06 PM Jean-Louis Martineau did opine:

Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
This looks great. If there were one or two things to brag about in
this release, what are they? How can we show them off?

Dustin

Hi Dustin!

chg-aggregate (man amanda-changers)
Support for removable hard drive in chg-disk (man amanda-changers,
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Using_removable_hard_disk_change
rs_as_Virtual_tapes) Both features allow to have more than one mount
point for the removable drive.

Unforch, the link got trimmed or? Empty page. Ahh, found it, remove the
final ).

It is an e-mail convention to surround the link with <>, so email agents
can separate and pass clean link phrases to the browsers.

So this link becomes:
<http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Using_removable_hard_disk_changers_as_Virtual_tapes>

I must say I like this whole idea too. It isn't a huge advantage to me
with my relatively small home network other than being able to plug in my
lappy and initiate a backup session for it. But this brings up another
subject: I use that laptop sparingly, usually syncing the email corpus
when I am on the road with an extended rsync session, which is very seldom
now as those trips are a 3 day drive each way. It would be very convenient
for me if I could, from that laptop, initiate a recovery session of that
email corpus as it existed as of the last run of amanda on this machine at
1ish am this morning.

Could this new amanda's security be bent far enough to allow that? Or is
rsync still the best method?

Thanks.


meta-label, useful for removable vtapes, it is the label of the hard
drive. barcode can automatically be included in the label.
A client can initiate a backup (useful for laptop).

I forgot to list one important feature, two new taperscan algorithms
(man amanda-taperscan):
oldest: this algorithm try to run through the volumes in the oldest
order. lexical: this algorithm try to run through the volumes in the
natural order.

Jean-Louis


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