Amanda packages from Zmanda downloads page

For Windows client from  page, see Amanda  installation instructions. 

Contents

• Installation directories

• Installation logs

• Amanda user

• amandates file

• amandahosts file

• gnutar-lists

• Solaris package dependencies

• Quick configuration using Zmanda packages

Installation directories

	Linux	Solaris	Examples
Amanda commands	/usr/sbin	/opt/amanda/sbin	amadmin, amrecover
Amanda configuration	/etc/amanda	/etc/opt/amanda	amanda.conf, disklist
Amanda internal binaries	/usr/libexec/amanda	/opt/amanda/lib	amandad, driver (libexec directory)
Amanda libraries	/usr/lib/amanda	/opt/amanda/lib	libamanda.a, libamclient.a
Amanda local/shared state directory	/var/lib/amanda	/var/opt/amanda	gnutar-lists, .amandahosts
Amanda man pages	/usr/share/man	/opt/amanda/man	man pages

Installation logs

Installation logs are created in /var/log/amanda directory. All Amanda package installation errors are logged in this log file.

Amanda user

Amanda packages create "amandabackup" user as the Amanda user. All the installed binaries have "amandabackup" as the owner and "disk" as the group name except for some internal Amanda client binaries that are "setuid root". The "amandabackup" user account is locked till the system administrator sets the password for the user. The Amanda user "amandabackup" home directory will be /var/lib/amanda.

amandates file

/var/amanda/amandates is automatically created as part of the post-installation script.

.amandahosts file

Default .amandahosts file is created in Amanda local/shared state directory (see Installation directories above) and it is owned by Amanda user "amandabackup". The contents of the file are:

localhost.localnet        amandabackup
localhost.localnet        root

gnutar-lists

gnutar-lists directory is created in Amanda local/shared state directory (see Installation directories above) and is owned by Amanda user "amandabackup"

Solaris package dependencies

Amanda server and client packages for Solaris 10 and Open Solaris have dependencies on packages from Solaris OpenCSW site.

• glib2 >= 2.32.4

• gtar >= 1.26

• readline >= 6.2

• libcurl4 >= 7.28.2

• libsasl >= 2.2

• openssh

Above packages have other dependencies, but the OpenCSW package management tool, pkgutil, should find and install them.

If using a tape library or changer, mtx is also needed.

Quick configuration using Zmanda packages

Zmanda website has a white paper on how to install, configure, do backups and recovery using Amanda in 15 minutes.