Greetings folks;

I want to thank all the people that participates quite active in any manner. The last release solved some issues I had backing up the servers I have in the DMZ. I had a second amanda server inside the DMZ just for this purpose.

Hello,

The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.6.1.
Thanks to everyone that tested 2.6.1b1 and 2.6.1b2 and provided feedback.


Source tarballs are available from

• http://www.amanda.org
• https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120
  

Binaries for many systems will be available soon from

• http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php

Documentation can be found at

• http://wiki.zmanda.com

Here's a list of the changes for release 2.6.1 (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.
• amsamba: Use smbclient to backup a cifs share, see amsamba man page.
• amzfs-sendrecv: Do a backup of a ZFS filesystem with 'zfs send'.
• 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.
• currently operating in "compatibility mode," calling old changershell scripts.
• under active development.
• Xfer API: generic library to move and filter data with maximal efficiency
• can read from and write to arbitrary devices, files, etc.
• only used in some applications.
• 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
• new application-tool section
• new script-tool section
• new device section
• new changer section

Jean-Louis martineau

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