The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver

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What is Amanda?

The most recent stable release is version 2.6.1p2, released on November 6, 2009. Download here! (README)

Release Notes for 2.6.1p2:

• amtapetype: new -p option
• Many bugs fixed
• S3 device driver
• amcheckdump
• file not removed from holding disk
• sendbackup compatibility with a 2.4.2 server
• handle EROFS error from tape device
• zfs snapshot name us the diskname
• fix fd allocation in amandad
• crash in amflush

Release Notes for 2.6.1p1:

• amplot: better output.
• Don't include genversion.h in distribution tarballs.
• Many bugs fixed
• S3 device driver
• rait device driver
• amstatus
• configure
• application-api
• compilation on some platform
• others small bug

Release Notes for 2.6.1:

• 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 changer shell 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 can use 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

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