Amanda 2.5 (network backup software) released

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The Amanda team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.5.0
Amanda 2.5.0 RPMs (binary and source RPMs) are available for Fedora Core 3 and
Fedora Core 4 at
http://www.zmanda.com/downloads.html
.
RPMS for Fedora Core 5 will be available soon.
There have been significant features added in this release:
* Communication security/authentication: Kerberos 4/5, OpenSSH
* Data security: Symmetric/Assymetric encrytion algorithms (aespipe
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.User can use different compression algorithm for images, binaries,
ascii files and so on.
* 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 labeling - This optional feature is good for disk backups.
For complete article on Amanda 2.5 features, see
http://zmanda.com/amanda-25-released.html
Amanda documentation can be found in Amanda wiki -
http://wiki.zmanda.com/

Amanda development team


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