[csw-users] /testing amanda 2.5.0p2

[Darin Perusich]

Hello,

amanda 2.5.0p2 is available in /testing. i will be extensively testing
the SPARC version over the next few weeks but i would appreciate
feedback from x86 users.

I STRONGLY RECOMMEND NOT USING THIS FOR PRODUCTION BACKUPS, until it's
moved into unstable. you have been warned.

"WHAT IS AMANDA
AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a
backup system that allows the administrator to set up a single master
backup server to back up multiple hosts over network to tape
drives/changers or disks or optical media. AMANDA uses native dump
and/or GNU tar facilities and can back up a large number of workstations
running multiple versions of Unix."

a few of the new features in 2.5.0 are:

* Communication security/authentication: Kerberos 4/5, OpenSSH

* Data security: Symmetric/Assymetric encrytion algorithms (aesutil and
gpg encryption), encryption can be done on server or client, custom
encryption utilities can be used.

* Compression: Ability to add custom compression tools. This is a really
useful feature especially since it can specified for a DLE.

* Dump images spanning multiple media volumes - Dump images are no
longer restricted to a single media volume (tape or vtape). Data
restoration can be done using amrecover and amfetchdump commands.

* Auto tape labelling - This optional feature is good for disk backups.

Dependencies...

CSWmtx 		Control tape autoloaders.
CSWgnuplot 	The Gnuplot Plotting Utility
CSWgtar 	GNU tape archiver
CSWggettext 	GNU gettext
CSWreadline 	library to enable interactive line editing
CSWcommon	useful standard CSW filesystem symlinks and files

-- 
Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corporation
395 Youngs Rd.
Williamsville, NY 14221
darinper at cognigencorp.com