Compatibility with previous versions of Amanda Enterprise

• Amanda Enterprise 3.0 Rapid Installer detects the existing installation of Amanda Enterprise 2.6.4. Amanda Enterprise 2.6.4 should be uninstalled saving Amanda configuration files and data before upgrading to Amanda Enterprise 3.0. Users can upgrade only from Amanda Enterprise 2.6.4. Uninstalling the old release while saving the configuration files is the only way to preserve the backup sets you created in the old release; Amanda Enterprise 3.0 cannot directly process backup sets created in older versions of the product. his upgrade procedure only converts backup set configurations created with the Zmanda Management Console. If you have manually created disk list entries that need to be preserved, please contact the Zmanda Support Team for assistance.

• Amanda Enterprise 3.0 can report on and restore from backup images created using older versions of Amanda Enterprise (2.5 and later).

• Amanda Enterprise 3.0 reads amanda.conf and disklist configuration files from older versions of Amanda converts them to be compatible with version 3.0. The newly-written amanda.conf and disklist configuration files will conform to the standard Amanda syntax as documented in the man pages, however all comments will be stripped out, and the order of parameters will be changed. In addition, some legacy option syntax may be updated, which results in messages such as the following in the log file(s):

zm_upgrade:13:4:23, Tue Jun 10, 2008: Updating Amanda configuration tapetest

Mailto value from amandabackup to [email protected]

zm_upgrade:12:22:46, Tue Jun 10, 2008: Updating Amanda configuration tapetest

displayunit value from M to g

zm_upgrade:12:22:44, Tue Jun 10, 2008: Updating Amanda configuration hdtest

tapebufs value from 20 to 1310720

These messages can be safely ignored.

• After performing any Zmanda Management Console (ZMC) version upgrades, you should clear the cache on your browser. If it is not cleared, the cache may contain older pages that are incompatible with the new release.

New Features

Customer-reported bugs fixed in 2.6.4

• All version 2.6.4 patches are included in Amanda Enterprise 3.0.

Known Problems with Release 2.6.4

Here is a list of known problems (and their work-arounds) for Amanda Enterprise 2.6.4:

Documentation

For a full list of supported platforms please review the compatibility guide here.

Amanda Enterprise 2.6.4 documentation provides detailed information on how to install and configure Amanda server and client on these platforms.