Release of Amanda-3.4

Hello,

The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 3.4.

Source tarballs are available from

  * http://www.amanda.org
  * https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120

  Binaries for many systems are available from

  * http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php

Documentation can be found at

  * http://wiki.zmanda.com

Here's a list of the changes for release 3.4 (from the NEWS file):
Look at the ReleaseNotes and ChangeLog file for more details.

  * 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)
      o compress-index
      o sort-index
  * amanda.conf (interface section)
      o add a src-ip setting.
  * amanda.conf (dumptype section)
      o add a retry-dump setting.
      o add atag setting.
      o deprecate usetimestamps, it is always "yes"
  * amanda.conf (new policy section), define when a tape can be reuse or
    not.
      o A lot more powerful than the tapecycle setting.
      o retention-tapes
      o retention-days
      o retention-recover
      o retention-full
  * amanda.conf (new storage section), define how to operate each changer.
      o Many old global setting can be set differently for each storage.
      o autoflush
      o autolabel
      o comment
      o device-output-buffer-size
      o dump-selection (select which dle go to that storage)
      o eject-volume
      o erase-on-failure
      o erase-on-full
      o erase-volume
      o flush-threshold-dumped
      o flush-threshold-scheduled
      o interactivity
      o labelstr
      o max-dle-by-volume
      o meta-autolabel
      o policy
      o report-use-media
      o report-next-media
      o runtapes
      o set-no-reuse
      o tapepool
      o taperalgo
      o taperflush
      o taperscan
      o taper-parallel-write
      o tapetype
      o tpchanger
  * amanda.conf
      o labelstr can be a new MATCH-AUTOLABEL keyword, labelstr can use
        the autolabel variable.
      o storage (default storage), You can set multiple storage, all
        DLEs will be sent to all storages
      o amvault-storage (storage used by amvault)
  * amvault
      o deprecated option: --label-template, --dst-changer, --autolabel,
        they must be set in a storage section
      o new --dst-storage option to overwrite the default amvault-storage.
  * * amlabel
      o new --pool and --storage options.
  * * amrmtape
      o new --list-retention, --list-no-retention and
        --remove-no-retention options.
  * amtape
      o print the RetentionType in the inventory
  * amadmin
      o new 'retention' command'
  * amfetchdump
      o --init and --no-restore arguments.
  * s3 device
      o New READ-FROM-GLACIER and TRANSITION-TO-GLACIER properties, they
        allow to transition s3 objects to Glacier.
  * tapelist file
      o include POOL, STORAGE and CONFIG
      o you can share the same tapelist file across multiple config.
  * amgetconf
      o new --platform argument
      o new --distro argument
  * ambackup/ambackupd
      o new client ambackup program to start a backup of the client
      o new server service ambackupd
      o this protocol works even if the client is behind a NAT


Jean-Louis Martineau