3.4 features

3.4.5

• fix amvault
• fix taper hang
• fix memory leak in amrecover
• fix config parser when -o option
• fix compilation on FreeBSD
• fix plannerlooping

3.4.4

• checkdump
  • Verify all copies of a dump
• diskflat device
  • truncate the file when overwritting a label
• amrecover
  • fix hang
• ambackup
  • allow incremental backup
• tapelist file
  • fix not adding label to tapleist file when creating it
• email interactivity
  • improvement
• S3 device
  • work with openstack keystone V2 (Juno and newer)
• labelstr
  • fix matching a labelstr

3.4.3

• fix MAJOR issue: amdump can reuse the same tape in the same run
• amtape slot
  • add drive selection
• compile/link with libressl
• fix portability issue
• fix for NetBSD
• fix 'Device busy' problem
• fix planner crash
• fix setregid call

3.4.2

• ambsdtar
  • add a SPARSE property
• amsamba
  • fix for newer samba version
• s3 device
  • fix for '/' in prefix
  • fix for port in S3-HOST
• fix compatibility with older version (2.4.2)
• configure
  • amanda-security.conf is now in $sysconfdir
• amgetconf
  • add many build. parameter
• fix warning reported by the clang compiler
• fix compilation without SSE4_2 when configure detect it
• amtoc fix
• amlabel -f fix
• many more fixes

3.4.1

• new --without-rest-server configure option
• fix reported bugs
  • build issue
  • packaging issue
  • amstar: fix exclude pattern
  • amrecover: do not print the size too often
  • amtapetype: fix error with property_set
  • allow a tapedev in the a storage section
  • amstatus: small fix

3.4

• Allow to put a dump on more than one storage
• Allow to specify which DLE/level go to which storage
• amdumpcan dothe vaulting operation (copy from one storage to another one)
• Use shared memory to pass data between processes
• A CRC is computed on the backup image and is verified on restore.
• Run multiple backup inparallel, there is no lock preventing concurrent run.
• Add letter based sequence to autolabel and meta-autolabel.
• And 'includefile' directive for the disklist.
• tapepool, tape are in pool
• amanda.conf (index file can be kept sorted, compressed or uncompressed)
  • compress-index
  • sort-index
• amanda.conf (interface section)
  • add a src-ip setting.
• amanda.conf (dumptype section)
  • add a retry-dump setting.
  • add atag setting.
  • deprecate usetimestamps, it is always "yes"
• amanda.conf (new policy section), define when a tape can be reuse or not. A lot more powerful than the tapecycle setting.
  • retention-tapes
  • retention-days
  • retention-recover
  • retention-full
• amanda.conf (new storage section), define how to operate each changer. Many old global setting can be set differently for each storage.
  • autoflush
  • autolabel
  • comment
  • device-output-buffer-size
  • dump-selection (select which dle go to that storage)
  • eject-volume
  • erase-on-failure
  • erase-on-full
  • erase-volume
  • flush-threshold-dumped
  • flush-threshold-scheduled
  • interactivity
  • labelstr
  • max-dle-by-volume
  • meta-autolabel
  • policy
  • report-use-media
  • report-next-media
  • runtapes
  • set-no-reuse
  • tapepool
  • taperalgo
  • taperflush
  • taperscan
  • taper-parallel-write
  • tapetype
  • tpchanger
• amanda.conf
  • labelstr can be a new MATCH-AUTOLABEL keyword, labelstr can use the autolabel variable.
  • storage (default storage), you can set multiple storage, all DLEs will be sent to all storages
  • amvault-storage (storage used by amvault)
• amvault
  • deprecated option: --label-template, --dst-changer, --autolabel, they must be set in a storage section
  • new --dst-storage option to overwrite the default amvault-storage.
• amlabel
  • new --pool and --storage options.
• amrmtape
  • new --list-retention, --list-no-retention and --remove-no-retention options.
• amtape
  • print the RetentionType in the inventory
• amadmin
  • new 'retention' command'
• amfetchdump
  • --init and --no-restore arguments.
• s3 device
  • New READ-FROM-GLACIER and TRANSITION-TO-GLACIER properties, they allow to transition s3 objects to Glacier.
• tapelist file
  • include POOL, STORAGE and CONFIG
  • you can share the same tapelist file across multiple config.
• amgetconf
  • New --platform argument
  • New --distro argument
• ambackup/ambackupd
  • New client ambackup program to start a backup of the client
  • New server service ambackupd
  • This protocol works even if the client is behind a NAT