Amanda Enterprise 3.5 provides new functionality and fixes issues reported by Amanda Enterprise customers.
Zmanda Windows Client, Linux/Solaris/Mac clients 3.5 are available along with 3.5 server release.
You can run the installer to upgrade from earlier versions of Amanda Enterprise 3.4. Please make sure you preserve configuration and data if you decide to uninstall earlier version of Amanda Enteprise 3.3.x and install Amanda Enterprise 3.5.
Zmanda Backup Appliance running Amanda Enterprise 3.4 can be upgraded to Amanda Enterprise 3.5.
You have to uninstall Amanda Enterprise 3.3.x by running /opt/zmanda/amanda/uninstall program. Please preserve configurations and data when prompted. Run Amanda Enterprise 3.5 installer to upgrade the software.
If you are running Amanda Enterprise server in DR (disaster recovery) configuration, please contact Zmanda Support for DR changes before upgrading Amanda Enterprise Server to 3.3.9.
Run the Zmanda Windows Client installer. It will detect the earlier version and provide an option to upgrade to 3.3.9. Follow the steps in the installer to install the client.
For a full list of supported platforms please review the compatibility guide here.
Amanda Enterprise 3.3 documentation provides detailed information on how to install and configure Amanda server and client on these platforms.
Amanda Enterprise backup server 3.3.9 does not support single tape drive without a changer. Please use Amanda Enterprise 3.1.5 for these configurations.
Hyper-V discovery in ZMC Backup What page displays virtual disks. But, virtual disks cannot be backed up individually as an backup object. Complete virtual machine has to be backed up.
After upgrading Zmanda Windows Client (ZWC) from version 3.3.7 or earlier on a client host, a full backup of all Windows client objects on that host is required.