WHAT IS AMANDA?
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This is a release of Amanda, the Advanced Maryland Automatic
Network Disk Archiver. Amanda is a backup system designed to archive many
computers on a network to a single large-capacity tape drive.
Here are some features of Amanda:
* written in C, freely distributable.
* built on top of standard backup software: Unix dump/restore, and
later GNU Tar and others.
* will back up multiple machines in parallel to a holding disk, blasting
finished dumps one by one to tape as fast as we can write files to
tape. For example, a ~2 Gb 8mm tape on a ~240K/s interface to a host
with a large holding disk can be filled by Amanda in under 4 hours.
* does simple tape management: will not overwrite the wrong tape.
WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda/
===> The following configuration options are available for amanda26-server-2.6.1p2_5,1:
AESPIPE=off: Enable encryption. Needed by amcrypt
GNUTAR=off: use GNU tar
MTX=off: Enable the use of mtx changer scripts
PLOT=off: Enable ploting, requires X11 libraries
S3=off: Enable Amazon S3 device support
SAMBA=off: Enable the use of smbclient
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
* Update the glib to 2.34.3 and gtk20 to 2.24.17 and gtk30 to 3.6.4 which
are the latest stable releases.
* Update vala to the newest stable release 0.18.1, also update a few ports
in the gtk/gnome stack.
* The c++ bindings ports for glib, atk, gconf, etc, have now USE_GNOME toggles.
* Remove pkg-config run depends from glib20 and freetype2. This doesn't
eliminate pkg-config run dependency completely, a second phase is needed
and is planned.
* Support for .:run. and .:build. for USE_GNOME components was added.
Currently only libxml2 and libxslt support this mechanism.
* Updates of the telepathy stack and empathy.
* Trim makefile headers, convert ports to new options, trim off library
versions for some ports.
* Fix other ports so they build with the new glib version.
Thanks to miwi and crees for helping out with some exp-runs.
Approved by: portmgr (miwi & bapt)
Obtained from: gnome team repo
Remove more tags from pkg-descr files fo the form:
- Name
em@i.l
or variations thereof. While I'm here also fix some whitespace and other
formatting errors, including moving WWW: to the last line in the file.
Finally upgrade amanda-{server,client} to 3.2.0. Old 2.6.x was
repocopied as amanda26-{server,client}. Please stay in 2.6.x branch
if you are conservative. Yes, you should so for important
infrastructre like as backup system :-).
New 3.2.0 port includes:
- Use misc/amanda-perl-wrapper as perl5 interpreter which is linked
with libthr.so to avoid thread problem.
- Unique UID, GID assigned and use it by default. amanda user/group
will be added automatically when not exist.
- Deprecate AMANDA_{CONFIG,TAPE} port knobs. They can be set in
runtime config easily.
References: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/3.2_features
