I'm reading the article on backupcentral regarding Amanda and was
wondering what the progress was on the "Future Capabilities" is. I have
snipped the text (hope they don't mind)
In addition to the usual enhancements and fixes constantly being added
by the AMANDA Core Development Team, three main changes are in various
stages of development.
* A new internal security framework will make it easier for
developers to add other security methods, such as SSH
(ftp://ftp.cs.hut.fi/pub/ssh/) and SSL (Secure Socket Layer).
* Another major project is a redesign of how AMANDA runs the client
dump program. This is currently hardcoded for a vendor dump
program, GNU tar or SAMBA tar. The new mechanism will allow
arbitrary programs such as cpio, star, and possibly other backup
systems. It will also add optional pre-dump and post-dump steps
that can be used for locking and unlocking, and snapshots of
rapidly changing data such as databases or the Windows registry.
* The third major project is a redesign of the output subsystem to
support non-tape media such as CD-ROM, local files, remote files
via tools like rcp and ftp, remote tapes, etc. It will also be
able to split dump images across media, handle multiple
simultaneous media of different types such as writing to multiple
tapes or a tape and a CD-ROM, and handle writing copies of images
to multiple media such as a tape to keep on site and a CD-ROM or
duplicate tape for archiving.
* In addition, the output format will be enhanced to include a
file-1 and a file-n. The idea is to put site-defined emergency
recovery tools in file-1 (the first file on the output) that can
be retrieved easily with standard non-AMANDA programs like tar,
then use those tools to retrieve the rest of the data. The file-n
area is the last file on the output and can contain items such as
the AMANDA database, which would be complete and up to date by the
time file-n is written.
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