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AMANADA client installation instructions for Linux

Prerequisites
Add the default user and group which AMANDA will run as:

groupadd backup
useradd amanda -g backup -d /var/lib/amanda -s /bin/bash -c "AMANDA user"

AMANDA requires pkg-config (>0.16) and GLIB (>2.2.0) to compile:

  • Centos 5.x

    yum install pkgconfig glib2-devel
  • Centos 4.x
    cd /extra/src
    wget http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz
    tar zxf pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz
    cd pkg-config-0.23
    ./configure
    make
    make install

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Client Installation

AMANDA Client Installation

Resources

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Server Installation

Instructions to install an AMANDA backup server.

Prerequisites
Add the default user and group which AMANDA will run as:

groupadd backup
useradd amanda -g backup -d /var/lib/amanda -s /bin/bash -c "AMANDA user"

AMANDA requires pkg-config and GLIB to compile:

yum install pkgconfig glib2-devel

In order to generate progress picture, gnuplot needs to be installed:

yum install gnuplot

Server Installation

cd /extra/src

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Client Test Configuration

Create a file named .amandahosts in the home directory of the Amanda user on the client. It should contain an entry with the hostname of the Amanda server and the Amanda user on the server:

su - amanda
echo "amanda.example.com amanda" > .amandahosts
exit

Since version 2.5.0, the .amandahosts file also requires strict permissions. Also, the home directory of the Amanda user (containing the .amandahosts file) should be write-protected from modification by any other user:

chown amanda ~amanda ~/.amandahosts
chmod 755 ~amanda

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Server Test Configuration

Create the configuration directory:

mkdir /usr/local/etc/amanda
chown amanda:backup /usr/local/etc/amanda

Basic Tapeless Test Configuration
From the AMANDA Quickstart Guide and Test Environment with Virtual Tapes
Create the configuration directory for our virtual tape test:

mkdir /usr/local/etc/amanda/test
chown amanda:backup /usr/local/etc/amanda/test

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AMANDA

Install guide for the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver - the most popular open source backup and recovery software in the world. Amanda protects more than half a million servers and desktops running various versions of Linux, UNIX, BSD, Mac OS-X and Microsoft Windows operating systems worldwide.

http://www.zmanda.com/quick-backup-setup.html

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