Monthly Status Updates/August 2007
August was a quiet month for public Amanda development, as Zmanda engineers continued work on a number of large changes such as the Device API and Application API and prepared for further architectural refactoring.
Wiki Changes
- Tfinn added a wishlist entry about native mirroring of backups to multiple storage media. At the moment this is only possible using RAIT, which has some drawbacks.
- Choogendyk added a new tapetype entry for Sony AIT-5 400GB tapes.
- Paddy made minor changes to the MySQL Backup and Recovery and No index records for host-disk articles.
Forums and Mailing Lists
Andrew Rakowski Dustin Mitchell Kevin Till Paddy Sreenivasan Pavel Pragin Jean-Louis Martineau
Code Changes
Among numerous small fixes and tweaks:
- Stefan G. Weichinger noticed that 'amadmin Conf balance' output was misaligned; Dustin J. Mitchell committed a fix (r425)
- Jean-Louis Martineau improved restore's performance by removing an unecessary fast-forward operation (r427)
- Chris Hoogendyk and Olivier Nicole suggested better documentation for the -o configuration-override option (r429)
- Paul Bijnens and Dimitri Gorokhovik submitted patches for bugs in chg-multi.sh (r431 and r442)
- Dustin J. Mitchell fixed problems finding 'mt' and 'mtx' in chg-zd-mtx.sh (r438)
- Dustin J. Mitchell modified all Amanda shell scripts to function correctly if internationalization support is not available (r444)
- Terry Burton submitted an updated DLT tape label template (r452).
Jean-Louis Martineau is working behind the scenes on the Application API, and Ian Turner is putting the finishing touches on the Device API. Hopefully, next month's status update will highlight the release of the Device API!