Not all changes are listed. Please check man pages.
- The default auth is changed to "bsdtcp", if you are using the default bsd then you must add it to your configuration.
- in amanda.conf
- in amanda-client.conf
- in dumptype/disklist
- in xinetd (if no '-auth' argument to amandad)
- amdump trap crtl-c, it still send the report and do cleanup if you do one crtl-c, do it more than once to abort the run.
- s3 device
- use multiple threads to speedup the transfer
- can connect to eucalytus.
- new NB_THREADS_BACKUP property
- new NB_THREADS_RECOVERY property
- new S3_HOST property
- new S3_SERVICE_PATH property
- new S3_SUBDOMAIN property
- chg-aggregate: new changer that use other changer sequentially.
- meta-volume
- Add meta label in tapelist file
- chg-disk:
- support for removable disk
- new NUM-SLOT property
- new AUTO-CREATE-SLOT property
- new REMOVABLE property
- new MOUNT property
- new UMOUNT property
- new UMOUNT-LOCKFILE property
- new UMOUNT-IDLE property
- new taperscan algorithm:
- oldest: this algorithm try to run through the volumes in the oldest order
- lexical: this algorithm try to run through the volumes in the natural order
- Change in amanda.conf
- new meta-autolabel option
- autolabel can include org, config, barcode, meta in the label
- new client-name option in appication and script
- application and script in amanda-client.conf can be used to set default properties for application or script
- amlabel
- The label argument is no longer required, an autolabel can be generated
- new --meta option
- new --barcode option
- new --assign option
- amgtar, amstar: The path must be specified, it will not works with a device.
- amrecover: decompression and decryption are now done on the client if compression/encryption was done on the client
- amtape: inventory print the current slot
- amanda.conf:
- autoflush have value "no|yes|all"
- script have single-execution setting
- Add pre-amcheck, post-amcheck, pre-estimate, post-estimate, pre-backup and post-backup to execute-on of script
- Add taperscan and interactivity section
- add 'server' value in recovery-limit
- add dump-limit in a dumptype
- amanda-client.conf
- add amdump-server setting
- script are searched in $APPLICATION_DIR, $CONFIG_DIR/<conf>/application and $CONFIG_DIR/application
- amservice amservice(8)
- add -s argument
- is also installed on client
- new amdumpd server service, if enable, it allow client to start a backup of itself
- new amdump_client program, it is use on client to start a backup of itself
- implement restore command in amzfs-sendrecv, it can be use with amrecover.