Release of Amanda-2.6.1b1

Hello,

The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the first beta release of Amanda 2.6.1, the 2.6.1b1 release.

Source tarballs are available from

Binaries for many systems are available from

Documentation can be found at

Here's a list of the changes for release 2.6.1b1(from the NEWS file):
Look at the ReleaseNotes and ChangeLog file for more details.

Application API: Allow to easily write wrappers around any backup program, see the 'amanda-applications' man page.

amgtar: Use GNU tar, it is a lot more configurable than the GNUTAR program. See 'amgtar' man page.
amstar: Use star to do a backup, it work only on a partition. See'amstar' man page.

Script API: Allow to run script before and after amanda process, see the 'amanda-scripts' man page.

amzfs-snapshot: Do a snapshot of a ZFS filesystem, then 'amgtar'application will backup the snapshot. See 'amzfs-snapshot' man page.
script-email: Simple script to send email. see 'script-email' man page.

Changer API v2.0: perl-based changer interface supporting concurrent use of multiple devices and changers.

Amanda archive format: A simple archive format that an application canuse to create backup image.
'amarchiver' program to manipulate file in amanda archive format.
Many improvements to report better error message to user.
amtape subcommands 'slot prev' and 'slot last' are removed.
Dozens more perl libraries, with more stable interfaces.
Many bugs fixed and improvement.
amgetconf '--client' option to retrieve config from amanda-client.conf on a client.
Amanda configuration file changes

Jean-Louis martineau