Hello,

The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda
2.4.5b1. It is the first beta of the upcoming amanda 2.4.5. The most
important change is the possibility to use calcsize to do faster estimate.

It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org/

Here's a list of the changes for release 2.4.5b1 (from the NEWS file):
Look at the ChangeLog file for more details.

* holding disk disk use timestamped directory.
* autoflush flush today's dump.
* new bumppercent global option, this should improve bumping criteria,
  the bumpsize is set to a fixed value which can be adequate for small
  and large disk.
* bumpsize, bumppercent, bumpdays and bumpmult can be in a dumptype.
* calcsize support include and exclude like gnutar.
* new 'estimate' dumptype option to select estimate type:
    CLIENT: estimate by the dumping program.
    CALCSIZE: estimate by the calcsize program, a lot faster but less acurate.
    SERVER: estimate based on statistic from previous run, take second but
            can be wrong on the estimate size.

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