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Things to note:
'amverify' and 'amverifyrun' are deprecated and replaced with the new, more flexible 'amcheckdump' 'amdd' and 'ammt' are deprecated. New 'amcryptsimple', 'amgpgcrypt' - encryption plugins based on gpg. New 'amserverconfig', 'amaddclient' - Initial Amanda configuration tools these tools make assumptions, please see man page. glib is required to compile and run amanda. Almost 200 unit tests are available via 'make installcheck'.
There's more at the above link, but that's a lot of work done since the last beta.
Well done to all the Amanda Team!
Posted by Suretec on Tuesday, January 22. 2008
The
Amanda 2.6.0 beta release offers
some excellent new features . Ones that appeal to
Suretec are:
There of course
many other excellent additions and fixes .
So, why is the Perl Interface so cool? Well, a while ago we asked about
using the Perl interface for use with an LDAP[?] , but at that time
Amanda wasn't ready .
The Perl interface is a great addition and
easy to understand why it was needed .
We'll keep you updated on how the betas progress and when we start hacking up an LDAP interface
Binaries and source can be downloaded from Zmanda .
I thought it would be very handy (at least to
Suretec ) to have
Amanda config held in an
OpenLDAP Directory, so I
raised this question .
Imagine all the Amanda clients pulling in config data from one source. Nice.
Seems the answer is
not yet . Oh well.
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