1Changes in release 3.3.9 2 * new --with-security-file configure option 3 - It set the default security file 4 - default to /etc/amanda-security.conf 5 * security-fix 6 - All previous release of amanda allow the 'amanda' user to execute 7 any code as root, and to execute an interactive shell as root. 8 - This is a security vulnerability if you do not trust the 'amanda' 9 user. 10 - There is no need to upgrade if you trust the 'amanda' user and the 11 account is secure. 12 - good password 13 - secure xinetd.conf setting 14 - securae .amandahosts setting 15 - The 'amanda' user can read all files in the machine, it is what a 16 backup program do. 17 - The set of fix disable the abilities to run unwanted code as root 18 or to write file anywhere in the filesystem. 19 * /etc/amanda-security.conf 20 - A file that contains security setting. 21 - It list all binaries amanda can execute as root 22 - restore_by_amanda_user 23 - It tell if the 'amanda' user can do restore as root. 24 - It allow the 'amanda' user to write files anywhere in the 25 filesystem 26 - see: man amanda-security.conf 27 * amgtar/amstar/ambsdtar/runtar 28 - Disable arguments that can fork program. 29 - Verify the realpath (with symbolic link resolved) is in the 30 amanda-security.conf file. 31 - Verify the tar/star/bsdtar realpath program is secure 32 - owned by root and modifiable only by root. 33 - On restore, check the restore_by_amanda_user setting if not run 34 by root. 35 36Changes in release 3.3.8 37 * s3 device 38 o New NEARLINE S3-STORAGE-CLASS for Google storage. 39 o New AWS4 STORAGE-API 40 * amcryptsimple 41 o Works with newer gpg2. 42 * amgtar 43 o Default SPARSE value is NO if tar < 1.28. 44 o Because a bug in tar with some filesystem. 45 * amstar 46 o support include in backup mode. 47 * ampgsql 48 o Add FULL-WAL property. 49 * Many bugs fix. 50 51Changes in release 3.3.7 52 * amvault 53 o new --no-interactivity argument. 54 o new --src-labelstr argument. 55 * amdump 56 o compute crc32 of the streams and write them to the debug files. 57 * chg-robot 58 o Add a BROKEN-DRIVE-LOADED-SLOT. property. 59 * Many bugs fix. 60 61Changes in release 3.3.6 62 * ambsdtar 63 o new application that use BSD tar to do the backup. 64 * Many bugs fix. 65 66Changes in release 3.3.5 67 68 * amtape 69 o faster 'verify' command. 70 71Changes in release 3.3.5 72 73 * amtape 74 o faster 'verify' command. 75 * fix parsing of config override arguments. 76 * amsamba 77 o Add REGEX-MATCH property. 78 * amvault 79 o Print progress status. 80 * ndmp device 81 o INDIRECT property default to yes. 82 * Many bugs fix. 83 84Changes in release 3.3.4 85 * amreport 86 o new --format argument 87 o new 'json' and 'json_raw' format. 88 * amanda.conf 89 o new REPORT-FORMAT option. 90 * amtape 91 o new 'verify' command. 92 * amadmin 93 o new 'force-level-1' command. 94 * ampgslq 95 o Add VERBOSE property. 96 * S3 device 97 o handle DURABLE_REDUCED_AVAILABILITY for google storage. 98 * Many bugs fix. 99 100Changes in release 3.3.3 101 102 * amdump.X log files use timestamp instead of number, amdump and amdump.1 103 are maintained as symlink. 104 * chg-disk 105 o Use the changerfile for the statefile. 106 * s3 device 107 o support CASTOR storage 108 * amanda.conf 109 o New REPORT-USE-MEDIA and REPORT-NEXT-MEDIA. 110 * amfetchdump 111 o new --extract, --directory, --data-path and --application-property 112 arguments. It allow to do the extraction on the server. 113 * --exact-match argument to many command, and '=' prefix to expression. 114 o It diable use of expression for host, disk, level and datestamp on 115 command line argument. 116 * All changer scripts. 117 o Add LOCK-TIMEOUT property. 118 * Many bug fix 119 120Changes in release 3.3.2 121 122 * amgtar 123 o New IGNORE-ZEROS property. 124 * amsamba 125 o Fix use of subdir for restore. 126 * s3 device 127 o New PROXY property. 128 o New PASSWORD, USERNAME, TENANT_ID, TENANT_NAME properties. 129 o New STORAGE_API property. 130 o New S3_MULTI_DELETE property 131 o New CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET and REFRESH_TOKEN properties. 132 o New CREATE-BUCKET property. 133 o New PROJECT-ID property. 134 o New REUSE-CONNECTION property. 135 o Works with swift and google storage. 136 * NDMP device 137 o Add INDIRECT property. 138 * amanda.conf 139 o Add 'max-warnings', The maximum number of warning lines in the report. 140 o Default 'columspec' changed to: HostName=0:-12:12,Disk=1:-11:11,Level=1:-1:1,OrigKB=1:-7:0,OutKB=1:-7:0,Compress=1:-6:1,DumpTime=1:-7:7,Dumprate=1:-6:1,TapeTime=1:-6:6,TapeRate=1:-6:1 141 * amadmin 142 o Add --no-default and --print-source arguments for config and 143 disklist command. 144 * amfetchdump 145 o Print progress. 146 o Add --decrypt, --no-decrypt, --server-decrypt, --client-decrypt, 147 --compress, --no-compress, --server-compress and --client-compress 148 options. 149 * fix for compilation with newer glib. 150 * fix for compilation on cigwin. 151 * Many bug fix. 152 153Changes in release 3.3.1 154 155 * amrecover 156 o New 'settransalte' command. 157 * amanda.conf 158 o new '$s' substitution in autolabel. 159 o new 'max-dle-by-volume' global option. 160 o new 'eject-volume' global option. 161 * diskfile 162 o new 'includefile' option. 163 * amcheck 164 o new '--client-verbose' argument. 165 * All programs have a new '--version' argument. 166 * ampgsql can take property from server configuration. 167 * amgetconf can print one property of a section. 168 * s3 device 169 o new S3_SERVER_SIDE_ENCRYPTION property. 170 o use multiple thread to speedup deleting a volume. 171 * Many bug fix. 172 173Changes in release 3.3.0 174 175 * The default auth is changed to "bsdtcp", if you are using the default bsd 176 then you must add it to your configuration. 177 o in amanda.conf 178 o in amanda-client.conf 179 o in dumptype/disklist 180 o in xinetd (if no '-auth' argument to amandad) 181 * amdump trap crtl-c, it still send the report and do cleanup if you do 182 one crtl-c, do it more than once to abort the run. 183 * s3 device 184 o use multiple threads to speedup the transfer 185 o can connect to eucalytus. 186 o new NB_THREADS_BACKUP property 187 o new NB_THREADS_RECOVERY property 188 o new S3_HOST property 189 o new S3_SERVICE_PATH property 190 o new S3_SUBDOMAIN property 191 * chg-aggregate: new changer that use other changer sequentially. 192 * meta-volume 193 * Add meta label in tapelist file 194 * chg-disk: 195 o support for removable disk 196 o new NUM-SLOT property 197 o new AUTO-CREATE-SLOT property 198 o new REMOVABLE property 199 o new MOUNT property 200 o new UMOUNT property 201 o new UMOUNT-LOCKFILE property 202 o new UMOUNT-IDLE property 203 * new taperscan algorithm: 204 o oldest: this algorithm try to run through the volumes in the oldest 205 order 206 o lexical: this algorithm try to run through the volumes in the natural 207 order 208 * Change in amanda.conf 209 o new meta-autolabel option 210 o autolabel can include org, config, barcode, meta in the label 211 o new client-name option in appication and script. 212 * application and script in amanda-client.conf can be used to set default 213 properties for application or script. 214 * amlabel 215 o The label argument is no longer required, an autolabel can be 216 generated 217 o new --meta option 218 o new --barcode option 219 o new --assign option 220 * amgtar, amstar: The path must be specified, it will not works with a 221 device. 222 * amrecover: decompression and decryption are now done on the client if 223 compression/encryption was done on the client. 224 * amtape: inventory print the current slot 225 * amanda.conf: 226 o autoflush have value "no|yes|all" 227 o script have single-execution setting. 228 o Add pre-amcheck, post-amcheck, pre-estimate, post-estimate, pre-backup 229 and post-backup to execute-on of script. 230 o Add taperscan and interactivity section. 231 o add 'server' value in recovery-limit. 232 o add dump-limit in a dumptype. 233 * amanda-client.conf 234 o add amdump-server setting. 235 * script are searched in $APPLICATION_DIR, $CONFIG_DIR/<conf>/application 236 and $CONFIG_DIR/application 237 * amservice 238 o add -s argument 239 o is also installed on client 240 * new amdumpd server service, if enable, it allow client to start a backup 241 of itself. 242 * new amdump_client program, it is use on client to start a backup of itself 243 * implement restore command amzfs-sendrecv, it can be use with amrecover. 244 245Changes in release 3.2.2 246 247 * Do not restore the NUL padding bytes, some program fail with them. 248 * Fix driver doing nothing if taper crash early. 249 * Fix taperalog *FIT no going to second volume. 250 * Fix amrestore '-p' not going to next file. 251 * flush even if flush threshold are not met if it save tape space. 252 * fix crash in amtrmidx due to memory leak. 253 * amsamba use 'Use smbclient -TF' for restore. 254 255Changes in release 3.2.1 256 257 * barcode are added to the tapelist file. 258 * Faster 'amadmin find', improve speed on many programs. 259 * device-output-buffer-size default to a minimum of 4*block_size. 260 * ssh auth use the client-port 261 * Bug fixed: 262 o "Can't opendata output stream: Connection refused". 263 o Better handling of dump to tape. 264 o Corrupted 'amdump' log file, amstatus not showing correct state. 265 o Execute subprocess with the config overwrite. 266 o tape-device allow to set LEOM. 267 o Crash in robot changer. 268 o Script output property are not sent to application. 269 270Changes in release 3.2.0 271 272 * Support for multiple simultaneous writes to storage devices 273 o Can write to all available drives in parallel. 274 o Works only with the new changer API. 275 o Useful if two or more volumes are used in a single run. 276 o dump direct to tape can be scheduled any time during the run, 277 previously they were done sequencially after all dump to holding disk. 278 o enabled with the new 'taper-parallel-write' configuration option. 279 * Support for LEOM in storage devices 280 o allows splitting without partial parts, saving space 281 o much more efficient, since parts need not be cached on disk in most 282 cases 283 * new, simpler splitting commands in the tapetype section: 284 part-size, part-cache-type, part-cache-dir, part-cache-max-size; see 285 amanda.conf(5) for details 286 * Amanda server configuration file changes (amanda.conf) 287 o new configuration keyword: 288 + taper-parallel-write -- How many drive amanda can write to 289 in parallel. 290 o deprecated configuration keywords: 291 + amrecover_do_fsf 292 + amrecover_check_label 293 * the CONFIG parameter to amidxtaped is now required; this means that 294 versions of amrecover older than 2.4.3 will be unable to recover from 295 servers running Amanda-3.2 and later. 296 * The new dumptype and global parameters 'recovery-limit' can be used to 297 limit which hosts may recover from a particular DLE. See amanda.conf(5) 298 and amanda-auth(7) for more information. 299 * Several old changers have been removed - these changers will work with 300 Amanda for the forseeable future, but are no longer included in the 301 distribution. 302 o chg-chio 303 o chg-chs 304 o chg-iomega 305 o chg-juke 306 o chg-mcutil 307 o chg-mtx 308 o chg-null (use the new "chg-null:") 309 o chg-rait (use the new "chg-rait:{dev1,dev2}") 310 o chg-rth 311 o chg-scsi-chio 312 o chg-scsi 313 * Amdump change: 314 o new '--no-taper' option to start the run in degraded mode 315 * Amvault is much improved, but still experimental: 316 o supports assembling split parts on the source volume and re-splitting 317 them on the destination 318 o supports filtering dumps with the same syntax as amfetchdump 319 o a --fulls-only option skips all incremental dumps on the source 320 o an --export option tries to move tertiary volumes to import/export 321 slots when completed 322 o command-line syntax has changed incompatibly; see manpage or 323 'amvault --help' 324 * Rewritten and improved: 325 o amoverview 326 o amcheckdump 327 328Changes in release 3.1.0 329 330 * Deprecated old changers; see amanda-changers(7) for replacements. These 331 changers are still available in the distribution, but will be removed in a 332 future release. 333 o chg-null 334 o chg-zd-mtx 335 o chg-rait 336 o chg-disk 337 o chg-multi 338 * Although chg-zd-mtx is still supported, we recommend that all users upgrade 339 to the more efficient chg-robot. See contrib/convert-zd-mtx-to-robot.sh 340 for a useful conversion script. 341 * Amanda server configuration file changes (amanda.conf) 342 o deprecated configuration keywords: 343 + label_new_tapes 344 o keywords deprecated in 2.6.1: 345 + rawtapedev 346 + tapebufs 347 + file-pad 348 o new configuration keyword 349 + autolabel -- replace label_new_tapes 350 + columnspec -- can specify a precision. 351 + order -- in script, to specify script order execution. 352 + client_port -- in dumptype, to specify which port to connect on 353 the client. 354 + estimate -- in dumptype, can specify multiple estimate method. 355 o accept 'define' keyword for defining an holdingdisk 356 * Amanda client configuration file changes (amanda-client.conf) 357 o new configuration keyword 358 + debug_days -- how many days to keep debug files. 359 + client_port -- use by amrecover, specify which port to connect on 360 the server. 361 * Removed compile-time default --with-changer-device: specify a device 362 explicitly in amanda.conf instead 363 * amtape behavior has changed: 364 o 'device' subcommand removed 365 o 'slot advance' subcommand removed 366 o 'update' subcommand no longer displays each slot as it is updated, and 367 is not supported by all changers 368 o taperscan output has changed 369 o new 'inventory' subcommand 370 * amrmtape rewrite 371 o use long option 372 + --changer -- Specify which changer to use 373 + --cleanup -- Remove logs and indexes associated with label 374 + --dryrun -- do not update the original copies. 375 + --erase -- Attempt to erase the data contained on the volume 376 + --keep-label -- Do not remove label from the tapelist 377 + --quiet -- Opposite of --verbose 378 + --verbose -- List backups of hosts and disks that are being 379 discarded. 380 * amdevcheck 381 o new --label option. 382 o new --properties option. 383 * Device API 384 o changed wildcard setting for S3_BUCKET_LOCATION from "" to "*" 385 o new 'ndmp:' device to write to a tape on an ndmp server. 386 o new 'dvdrw:' device to write to a dvd drive. 387 * Application API 388 o new properties to many applications 389 o amgtar 390 + new ACLS, SELINUX and XATTRS properties 391 o amsamba 392 + Allow '\' in diskname and amandapass. 393 + new ALLOW-ANONYMOUS property. 394 o new applications: 395 + ampgsql -- Backup PostgreSQL using continuous WAL archiving 396 + amsuntar -- Backup filesytem with the SUN tar 397 + amraw -- Backup only one directory entry 398 * New taper, with DirectTCP support, changed tape and catalog format: 399 o all dumpfiles are now F_SPLIT_DUMPFILE 400 o all on-tape dumpfiles have numparts=-1, since it's no longer possible 401 to calculate this value in advance 402 o there is no logging or reporting of zero-byte, successful parts (this 403 may cause gaps in filenums in the catalog) 404 * Redesigned amreport 405 o much more natural command-line interface (just run 'amreport $config') 406 o experimental XML output 407 * configuration override for dumptype works with inheritance. 408 409Changes in release 2.6.1p2 410 * amtapetype: new -p option 411 * Bugs fixed 412 o S3 device driver 413 o amcheckdump 414 o file not removed from holding disk 415 o sendbackup compatibility with a 2.4.2 server 416 o handle EROFS error from tape device. 417 o zfs snapshot name us the diskname. 418 o fix fd allocation in amandad 419 o crash in amflush 420 421Changes in release 2.6.1p1 422 423 * amplot: better output 424 * Don't include genversion.h in distribution tarballs. 425 * Bugs fixed 426 o S3 device driver 427 o rait device driver 428 o amstatus 429 o configure 430 o application-api 431 o compilation on some platform 432 o others small bug 433 434Changes in release 2.6.1 435 436 * Amanda server configuration file changes (amanda.conf) 437 o deprecated configuration keywords: 438 + rawtapedev 439 + tapebufs 440 + file-pad 441 * Application API: Allow to easily write wrappers around any backup program, 442 See the 'amanda-applications' man page. 443 o amgtar: Use GNU tar, it is a lot more configurable than the GNUTAR 444 program. See 'amgtar' man page. 445 o amstar: Use star to do a backup, it work only on a partition. See 446 'amstar' man page. 447 o amsamba: Use smbclient to backup a cifs share, see amsamba man page. 448 o amzfs-sendrecv: Do a backup of a ZFS filesystem with 'zfs send'. 449 * Script API: Allow to run script before and after amanda process, see the 450 'amanda-scripts' man page. 451 o amzfs-snapshot: Do a snapshot of a ZFS filesystem, then 'amgtar' 452 application will backup the snapshot. See 'amzfs-snapshot' man page. 453 o script-email: Simple script to send email. see 'script-email' man page. 454 * Changer API v2.0: perl-based changer interface supporting concurrent 455 use of multiple devices and changers. 456 o currently operating in "compatibility mode," calling old changer 457 shell scripts. 458 o under active development. 459 * Xfer API: generic library to move and filter data with maximal efficiency 460 o can read from and write to arbitrary devices, files, etc. 461 o only used in some applications. 462 * Amanda archive format: A simple archive format that an application can 463 use to create backup image. 464 * 'amarchiver' program to manipulate file in amanda archive format. 465 * Many improvements to report better error message to user. 466 * amtape subcommands 'slot prev' and 'slot last' are removed. 467 * Dozens more perl libraries, with more stable interfaces. 468 * Many bugs fixed and improvement. 469 * amgetconf '--client' option to retrieve config from 470 amanda-client.conf on a client. 471 * Amanda configuration file changes 472 o new application-tool section 473 o new script-tool section 474 o new device section 475 o new changer section 476 477Changes in release 2.6.0 478 479 * configure --disable-shared doesn't work because perl modules require 480 shared libraries. Use configure --with-static-binaries to build 481 statically linked binaries. 482 * 'amverify' and 'amverifyrun' are deprecated and replaced with the 483 new, more flexible 'amcheckdump' 484 * 'amdd' and 'ammt' are deprecated. 485 * Some Amanda files are now installed in new "amanda/" subdirectories: 486 libraries are now installed in $libdir/amanda and internal programs 487 are now installed in $libexecdir/amanda. 488 * The amandates file, previously at /etc/amandates, is now at 489 $localstatedir/amanda/amandates. You may want to move your existing 490 /etc/amandates when you upgrade Amanda. 491 * New 'amcryptsimple', 'amgpgcrypt' - encryption plugins based on gpg. 492 * New 'amserverconfig', 'amaddclient' - Initial Amanda configuration tools 493 these tools make assumptions, please see man page. 494 * Many bugs fixed and code rewrite/cleanup 495 * glib is required to compile and run amanda. 496 * Device API: pluggable interface to storage devices, supporting tapes, 497 vtapes, RAIT, and Amazon S3 498 * New perl modules link directly to Amanda, to support writing Amanda 499 applications in Perl. Perl module are installed by default in the perl 500 installsitelib directory. It can be changed with 501 'configure --with-amperldir'. 502 * New 'local' security driver supports backups of the amanda server 503 without any network connection or other configuration. 504 * Almost 200 unit tests are available via 'make installcheck'. 505 * Amanda configuration file changes 506 o amanda.conf changes 507 + flush-threshold-dumped 508 + flush-threshold-scheduled 509 + taperflush 510 + device_property 511 + usetimestamps default to yes 512 513Changes in release 2.5.2p1 514 515 * Many bugs fixed 516 o Many IPv6 bugs 517 + missing sockaddr_storage 518 + missing AI_V4MAPPED and AI_ALL 519 + compare of IPv4 and IPv6 v4mapped address. 520 + (bsd/bsdudp): server use two sockets, 521 one for IPv4 and one for IPv6 522 o amflush/autoflush 523 o chown/chmod 524 o amstatus 525 o compilation on some platform 526 o others small bug 527 528Changes in release 2.5.2 529 530 * Many bugs fixed and code cleanup 531 * krb5 auth is working 532 * Works with IPv6 address 533 * Amanda configuration file changes 534 o amanda.conf changes 535 + debugging is enabled in the config file 536 see all debug_* config option 537 + tapetype 'readblocksize', if maxtapeblocksize is set too 538 larger for your hardware 539 540Changes in release 2.5.1p3 541 542 * Many bugs fixed 543 * amrecover improve handling of not ascii filename in index. 544 * Works with tar-1.16 and exit status of 1. 545 * Can define a LASTSLOT in a chg-disk config file. 546 547 548Changes in release 2.5.1p2 549 550 * Many bugs fixed 551 * amoverview is working 552 * dumptype starttime is working 553 554 * Amanda command changes 555 o amtape accept the -o arguments 556 o amgetconf --list to list all tapetype, dumptype, holdingdisk 557 or interface 558 o amgetconf can return a value of a specific tapetype, dumptype, 559 holdingdisk or interface 560 561 562Changes in release 2.5.1p1 563 564 * Many bugs fixed: 565 o Timeout waiting for ACK 566 o "illegal density" with dump 567 o IRIX: Parse config file, amrecover 568 o MacOs: compilation 569 o amrecover with FreeBSD/OpenBSD 570 * Some other small cleanup. 571 * Remove contrib/sst. 572 573 574Changes in release 2.5.1 575 576 * Defects found by Coverity scan and Klocwork K7 analysis tools fixed. 577 * Works with GNU tar 1.15.91 - work with new gtar state file format. 578 * Open SSL encryption support 579 * Two new authentication methods: bsdtcp, bsdudp. 580 * Unlimited number of DLEs on a client with bsdtcp, rsh and ssh 581 authentication methods. 582 * Recovery process amrecover uses Secure API. amoldrecover command 583 (same syntax and functionality as amrecover command) is provided for 584 compatibility with old Amanda releases. amoldrecover command uses old 585 amidxtaped/amindexd protocol. 586 * Amanda debug files are separated into client/server/amandad and 587 are also classified based on Amanda configuration name. 588 589 * Amanda command changes 590 o amfetchdump -o is replaced by -O. 591 o amcheck -w option does all tests including the tape writable test. 592 Use amcheck -t -w to do only the tape writable test. 593 o -o command option to override Amanda configuration. See amanda man 594 page for details. 595 o amgetconf command doesn't write the BUGGY message when a entry 596 is not found in the configuration file. 597 598 * Amanda configuration file changes 599 o amanda.conf changes 600 + amrecover_do_fsf in amanda.conf defaults to yes 601 + amrecover_check_label in amanda.conf defaults to yes 602 + usetimestamps in amanda.conf to support multiple 603 backup runs in a calendar day. 604 + holdingdisk in amanda.conf supports new values: 605 NEVER, AUTO, REQUIRED. 606 + amandad_path, client_username and ssh_keys in 607 amanda.conf for ssh/rsh authentication. 608 o New amanda client configuration file - amanda-client.conf. 609 Different client configuration file can be used for each Amanda 610 configuration. 611 + gnutar_list-dir and amandates can be specified in 612 Amanda client configuration file - amanda-client.conf 613 o .amandahosts format changes to allow use of secure API for recovery. 614 o Amanda service entries in xinetd configuration has changed. 615 616 617Changes in release 2.5.0p2 618 619* listhost subcommand in amrecover 620 621Changes in release 2.5.0p1 622 623* Add the 'amtape update' command. 624 625Changes in release 2.5.0 626 627* Communication security/authentication: Kerberos 4/5, OpenSSH 628* Data security: Symmetric/Assymetric encrytion algorithms (aesutil 629 and gpg encryption), Encryption can be done on server or client, 630 Custom encryption utilities can be used. 631* Compression: Ability to add custom compression tools. This is a 632 really useful feature especially since it can specified for a DLE. You 633 can use different compression algorithm for images, binaries, ascii files 634 and so on. 635* Dump images spanning multiple media volumes - Dump images are no 636 longer restricted to a single media volume (tape or vtape). Data restoration 637 can be done using amrecover and amfetchdump commands. 638* Auto tape labelling - This optional feature is good for disk backups. 639 640Change in release 2.4.5p1 641 642* New [--days <num>] argument to 'amadmin <conf> tape'. 643* New amoverview -last -num0 -togo0 options. 644 645Change in release 2.4.5 646 647* new displayunit global option to select the unit use to display number 648 k=kilo, m=mega, g=giga, t=tera. 649* new amoverview -skipmissed option. 650 651Change in release 2.4.5b1 652 653* holding disk disk use timestamped directory. 654* autoflush flush today's dump. 655* new bumppercent global option, this should improve bumping criteria, 656 the bumpsize is set to a fixed value which can be adequate for small 657 and large disk. 658* bumpsize, bumppercent, bumpdays and bumpmult can be in a dumptype. 659* calcsize support include and exclude like gnutar. 660* new 'estimate' dumptype option to select estimate type: 661 CLIENT: estimate by the dumping program. 662 CALCSIZE: estimate by the calcsize program, a lot faster but less acurate. 663 SERVER: estimate based on statistic from previous run, take second but 664 can be wrong on the estimate size. 665 666Changes in release 2.4.4p3 667 668* new chg-iomega changer script. 669* amanda will not use a tape if it's label is not in the tapelist file 670 (eg. after an amrmtape). 671 672Changes in release 2.4.4p2 673 674* new initial_poll_delay config in chg-zd-mtx 675* 'amadmin find' list disk removed from the disklist. 676* amrecover can recover a disk removed from the disklist file. 677* amanda works with samba3. 678* new chg-disk changer script to use with the file: driver. 679* Kerberos 4 support integrated and functional again. 680 681Changes in release 2.4.4p1 682 683* amverify do not advance to next tape at the end. 684* new amflush -b and -s options, change -f behavior. 685* new chg-mcutil changer. 686* amrecover_changer works with chg-multi. 687* default driveslot for chg-zd-mtx is now 0. 688* amplot generate color postscript by default. 689* amplot -b flag to generate b/w postscript. 690* rait: works with file: 691* print a postscript label for each tape used. 692 693Changes in release 2.4.4 694 695* New -a option to amcheck to always send an email. 696 697Changes in release 2.4.4b1 698 699* maxpromoteday: New option for a dumptype. 700* New amtapetype program (replace tapetype) 701* Client compile on CYGWIN 702* amrestore -f <fileno> : amrestore can do fsf before reading the tape 703* amrestore -l <label> : amrestore can check the label before restoring. 704* New config options: 705 amrecover_do_fsf: Amrecover will use the -f flag of amrestore to position the 706 tape. 707 amrecover_check_label: amrecover will pass the -l flag to amrestore. 708 amrecover_changer: amrecover will use your changer. 709 maxdumpsize: The maximum size of the dumps during a run, 710 default to tapesize * runtapes 711 taperalgo: select your algo for the taper, try 'largestfit', it can improve 712 tape usage. 713* amrecover allow to retry a skip a tape. 714* New --days option to 'amadmin <config> balance' command. 715* New --date option to amstatus 716* amreport print an usage by tape. 717* Newer promote algorithm that try to reduce the number of full on a 718 single host in a run. 719* New changer: chg-juke, chg-null and chg-rait 720 721Changes in release 2.4.3 722 723* Few small bug fixed 724* New runtapes argument to amverify. 725* New amverifyrun program. 726* 2.4.3 client works with older server. 727 728Changes in release 2.4.3b4 729 730* new noop packet type. It allow the server to know the client features. 731* exclude list with relative path is working again. 732* amstatus is working again. 733 734Changes in release 2.4.3b3 735 736* --with-maxtapeblocksize configure options 737* blocksize tapetype option 738* file-pad tapetype option 739* Multiple exclude in dumptype 740* Option include in dumptype 741* New disklist syntax: 742* hostname diskname [ diskdevice ] dumptype [ spindle [ interface ] ] 743* chg-zd-mtx: Major cleanup and general overhaul. 744* amrecover: new listdisk command. 745 746Changes in release 2.4.3b2 747 748* amrestore try to find the next chunk in the current directory. 749* amrecover: You can change the tape device between each tape. 750* amstatus work with amflush. 751 752Changes in release 2.4.3b1 753 754* tapeio. 755* New [host [disk]*]* arguments to amdump, amcheck, amadmin and amflush. 756* New [-D datastamp]* arguments to amflush. 757* amrecover: cd accept shell wildcard, new command cdx accept regex. 758* new autoflush option. 759* new dumperstr option to specify the priority order of each dumper. 760 761Changes in release 2.4.2 762 763* Samba passwords are now sent to smbclient via a pipe and never displayed. 764* Debug files in /tmp/amanda (--with-debug-dir) are now timestamped and old 765 ones automatically cleaned out. This means more space (a few KBytes) will 766 be used since in a given run, several of the programs are called more than 767 once. But it also means important debugging information should no longer 768 be lost by the file being overwritten. The length of time to keep the 769 files is controlled by --with-debug-days (default: 4). The old flag 770 --with-pid-debug-files is no longer needed and is ignored. 771* dumptypes can be specialized in the disklist file 772* Amanda will never use more space than specified (use) for an holding 773 disk 774* A dump on holding disk can spread multiple holding disks 775* negative chunksize is no longer supported 776* chunksize is now 1 Gb by default 777* ufsdump -S is now supported on Solaris 778* Samba 2.0.0 is now supported 779* New `incronly' strategy, similar to skip-full, but allows manual 780 scheduling of full backups 781* chg-scsi was ported to several platforms 782* --with-amandahosts is now enabled by default 783* new force-bump, force-no-bump and unforce-bump command in amadmin. 784* Increased the maximum number of filesystems that can be backed up 785 from a single host, by increasing the maximum UDP request packet 786 size. 787* A new `dtimeout' keyword in amanda.conf to replace the READ_TIMEOUT 788 constant in dumper.c. 789* A new `ctimeout' keyword in amanda.conf to replace the CHECK_TIMEOUT 790 constant in amcheck.c. 791* new amtrmlog command 792* --with-samba-user is deprecated, the username go in the amandapass file 793 794Changes in release 2.4.1 795 796* FAQ for new users, in docs/FAQ. 797* A new `runspercycle' keyword in amanda.conf to specify the number 798 of amdump runs in a dumpcycle. The default is one run every day. 799 A value of 0 (the default) means the same value as dumpcycle. 800 A value of -1 means guess the number of runs from the tapelist file, 801 which is the number of tape used in the last dumpcycle days / runtapes. 802 If you don't run amdump every days, you must set runspercycle 803 otherwise amanda will noy be able to balance the dump. You must 804 set runspercycle to -1 if you want the same behavior as previous 805 version of amanda. 806* Space to be use as holding disk can now be "use all space except ??? Kb" 807 using a negative value for the 'use' parameter. 808* amrecover will restore SAMBA backups using SAMBA. 809* New `amstatus' program. 810* New `chg-scsi' tape changer program, that replaces `chg-chio' and uses 811 tape-changer-related ioctls on OSs that support them. 812* Reporter can now print tape labels. 813* ZFTAPEs are now supported on Linux. 814* amrestore now accepts a list of filesystems to be restored. 815* New `clean' amtape command. 816* amlabel will only overwrite an Amanda tape if `-f' is specified. 817* Tapes can now be marked so as not to be recycled with amadmin no-reuse. 818* amidxtrm will no longer remove index files of backups in active tapes. 819* Large dumps can now be split into multiple files on holding disk 820 (but they won't span across tapes yet). 821* A total estimate time-out may be specified. 822* Fixed skip-incr and skip-full support. 823* amcheck now accepts -Maddress to send e-mail to the specified address. 824* amdump, amflush and amcheck will use the log files as locks, so as 825 to avoid running concurrently. 826* driver now supports configurable level-0 dumps in degraded mode via 827 new amanda.conf keyword "reserve"; see docs/WHATS.NEW for details. 828* Configure now looks for vxdump and vxrestore in /usr/lib/fs/vxfs for Solaris 829 systems and will use it vxdump/vxrestore automatically on vxfs filesystems. 830* New `killpgrp' setuid-root program, that kills estimate dumps even 831 if they are setuid-root. 832 833Changes in release 2.4.0p1 834 835* Fixed kerberos encryption 836* New --with-owner configure option, to specify owner of installed files 837* amcheck now checks for the existence of gnutar-listdir and of a 838 compressor on the server (for indexes and server compression) 839* Implemented dumptype option `strategy skip' 840* Updated to libtool 1.2a 841* Minor portability-related bugfixes. 842 843Changes in release 2.4.0 844 845* Several security-related fixes, see docs/SECURITY for details. 846* New configuration file syntax: dumptypes can now be used as keywords. 847* New text database format, to replace dbm/ndbm/gdbm/db databases with 848 a more portable and user-friendly format. 849* Index files are now sent through a separate TCP connection, as they 850 are generated, instead of being stored in /tmp. This breaks Amanda 851 protocol backward compatibility. 852* Estimates are now performed concurrently, if maxdumps>1. 853* At configure time, it is now possible to specify a suffix for amanda 854 service names (--with-testing=suffix) and a directory for debugging 855 files (--with-debugging=/directory/name) 856* New tape changer configuration keywords, that partially standardize 857 tape changer script configuration interface. 858* amrecover can now handle GNU tar and AIX dump restores; it must now 859 be run as root. 860* Shared libraries are built by default, using GNU libtool. 861* Extended regular expression syntax has been adopted. 862* amcheck will no longer report failures about unused programs. 863* It is now possible to specify a SAMBA username at configure time. 864* BSD security is now enabled by default. 865* A time-out for estimate requests can now be specified in amanda.conf. 866* New patch-system script, for editing /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf. 867* Amdump will wait if a file named `hold' exists in the log directory. 868* Various bugfixes and new ports. 869 870Changes in release 2.3.0.4 871* New chg-generic.conf option 'multieject' added which lets 872 chg-generic work on tape drives that need multiple 'mt offline' 873 commands. See examples/chg-generic.conf for more information. 874* New configure options: 875 --with-db=DBLIB Force database library choice from {db,dbm,gdbm,ndbm} 876 --enable-buffered-dump Use buffered sockets on server for faster dumps 877 --with-group=GROUPNAME Install all files into group GROUPNAME 878* Include the file seagate-changer.c which controls 879 Seagate/Conner/Archive autoloading DAT drive on NetBSD systems. 880* Add a new amanda.conf option named "starttime" which is used in the 881 dumptype configuration. It takes one argument which is a time of day 882 (local timezone) formated as either hhmm or hmm (no `.'s, no `:'s, 883 just an integer). This tells Amanda to start a particular dump at 884 the given time. 885* Index files are now retrieved from the clients through amandad, not rsh/rcp. 886* Fix configure bug when multiple invocations would not do the correct things. 887* Better fully qualified domain name support. 888* Many little dumper fixes. 889* Remove C style comments from amrmtape and fix a bug when there is 890 only one tape in the tapelist. 891* More declarations of Unix system functions for those OSes that do not 892 have declarations. 893* Fix --with-mmap configure bug. 894 895Changes in release 2.3.0.4b3 896* Include amplot-2.2.6 which makes plots of the amdump files for performance 897 improvements. Amplot requires gnuplot and a version of awk that 898 understands command line variable assignment. 899* Include amoverview which creates a list of each disk dumped and the level 900 and success or failure of those dumps over a complete tapecycle. 901* Amanda now supports backups of clients in different domains. Requires 902 using the configure --with-fqdn options and fully qualified domain 903 names (FQDNs) in the disklist file. 904* rth-changer checks all system calls for valid returns. 905* no-changer and hp-changer use different status files and do more checking. 906* amrestore works again with gzip compressed tapes. 907* New setuid program rundump for systems where dump must run as root. 908* Setuid programs are now installed o-rwx for tighter security. 909* Fix bug where if Amanda was not configured using the --with-bsd-security 910 configure option, Amanda would not connect to the client machines. This 911 is now fixed. 912* Rundump and runtar now check if the proper user is invoking them. 913* Amanda now can use gdbm if the compatibility header files are not installed. 914* Bug fixes for gnutar file exclusions. 915* Fix bug in sendsize which would loop forever if debugging was not turned on. 916* Bug fixes in Samba code. 917* More configure and bug fixes for HP-UX, m88k-motorola-sysv4, SGI, OSF, and 918 Ultrix systems. 919 920Changes in release 2.3.0.4b2 921* New tape changer script (rth-changer) for the Robotic Tape Handling system. 922* Include amindex-1.0 from Alan McIvor. 923* Gnutar incrementals should now work. 924* amgetidx now caches if a remote client is reachable. 925* amanda.conf settings used before --with-dbdir and --with-logdir settings 926 in various scripts. 927* New configure options: 928 --with-mmap force mmap() instead of shared memory 929 --with-gnutar-listed-incremental=DIR gnutar directory lists go in DIR 930 --enable-gnutar-atime-preserve gnutar preserves atime, do not use 931 --with-pid-debug-files use pid in /tmp debugging filenames 932* Samba support must now be explicitly included using --with-smblcient. 933* Amanda now compiles with K&R compilers. 934* Better AIX, Linux, OSF support. 935* configure checks if /dev/r devices exist or not. 936* Amanda uses POSIX fcntl locking before flock or lockf locking if available. 937* dumper.c uses less aggressive I/O values for SunOS server support. 938* Many bug fixes in the configure script for various platforms. 939* Many bug fixes to codes. 940 941Changes in release 2.3.0.4b1 942* Configuration now uses configure. Build environment now uses 943 automake and autoconf. 944* Samba PC client backup support added. 945* New programs and scripts: 946 amrmtape: invalidate the contents of an existing backup tape 947 amverify: check Amanda tapes for gnutar driven backups. 948 hp-changer: script for a HP DAT changer. 949 no-changer: make a single tape appear like an infinite count tape stacker. 950* New options added to programs: 951 amadmin: `amadmin <conf> version' shows version information. 952 amtape: `amtape <conf> current' shows the current tape label, 953* Amanda now supports server side compression of dumps on the tape 954 host. Use the srvcompress option in amanda.conf. 955* Better gnutar support for indexing. Amanda now lets you exclude 956 files from the dump. 957* Tape planning improvements. 958* Email reports have better formating for disks with long mount points. 959* Tighter DNS checking added to amandad. 960* More debugging added to several programs. 961* Amdump now calls amgetidx and amtrmidx. 962* Better support for multidomain environments. 963* Contains amindex-0.3 from Alan McIvor. 964* Many bug fixes and compiler warnings handled. 965 966Changes in release 2.3.0.3 967* Amadmin uses regular expression matching to match disks. 968* Expand the column width of the disk names from reporter. 969* Contains amindex-0.2 from Alan McIvor. 970* Many bug fixes. 971 972Changes in release 2.3.0.2 973* Bug fixes. 974 975Changes in release 2.3.0.1 976* Contains amindex-0.1 from Alan McIvor. 977* Bug fixes. 978 979Changes in release 2.3.0 alpha 980* A number of material bugs fixed, including fixes incorporated into 981 John Stoffel's WPI patches to amanda, which he called 2.2.6.5. 982* Backup files larger than 2 GB now supported. The current limit is 983 2^31 Kbytes (2 terabytes), which should hold us for a few more years 984 (1/2 :-). 985* Support for GNUTAR-based backups. 986* Support for writing to multiple tapes (sequentially) in one run. 987* Support for multiple backups in parallel from the same client host. 988* Records from the curinfo database can be exported and imported 989 to/from a textual format. This allows fixing a corrupted database by 990 running the text version through a script and reimporting it. 991 Individual records or the entire database can be exported/imported. 992 993Changes in release 2.2.6 994* A number of material bugs fixed. 995* A lot of lint picked in the whole package. 996* The documentation is now reasonably up to date. 997* This version has been locally compiled and at least the client side 998 tested on the following systems: 999 SunOS 4.1.3 IRIX 5.2 1000 Solaris 2.3 BSDI BSD/386 1.1 1001 Ultrix 4.2 NetBSD 1.0 1002 DEC OSF/1 2.0 AIX 3.2 1003 I don't have any HP/UX machines locally to try it on, but I've 1004 tracked patches submitted by Neal Becker <neal@ctd.comset.com>, so 1005 I'm reasonably confident that 2.2.6 shouldn't be far from the mark on 1006 that platform. 1007 1008Changes in release 2.2.5 1009* SYSV shared memory no longer required on server side if mmap is 1010 available. 1011* Supports GZIP compression. 1012* Supports use of mount names as well as device names in disk list 1013 (eg "/usr" instead of "sd0g"). 1014* Amanda now thinks in real-time - you may run it several times a day 1015 if you wish, and it won't get confused. 1016* Supports Kerberos 4 security as well as BSD-style .rhosts, including 1017 encrypting files over the net. The Kerberos support is available as 1018 a separate add-on package - see the file KERBEROS.HOW-TO-GET on the 1019 ftp site. 1020* Improved network protocol - faster startup, no longer dump specific, 1021 hooks in place for non-dump clients. 1022* Client-side checks in amcheck - can check sanity of all client hosts 1023 very quickly. 1024* Supports multiple holding disks, and load balances between them. 1025