4 To configure your server, as root do:
6 1. for a simple setup edit the files (see explanations there)
7 /etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda.conf
8 /etc/amanda/DailySet1/disklist
11 2. prepare the holding disk if you use one by
12 chown -R backup:backup <holding disk location>
15 crontab -u backup /etc/amanda/crontab.amanda
18 To use all of Amanda's features, you may find it necessary to put each client
19 machine's root user in the .rhosts or .amandahosts for ~backup on the server
20 machine. On Debian systems, this is usually linked to /etc/amandahosts, but
21 if you have clients running other operating systems you'll have to find the
25 NOTE: If you want to backup your server too, you need to treat it as both a
26 client *and* a server, see /usr/share/doc/amanda-client/README.Debian for
30 For more complex setups, consult the manpages and the extra documents and
31 example files in /usr/share/doc/amanda-common, or look at www.amanda.org on
34 Another Note: if you use floppy tapes you have to use the sftape
35 interface for use with ftape(>=3.03).
37 Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@mail.quoininc.com> reports the following about
38 his experience using ftape:
40 I'm using ftape successfully with amanda but only after
41 struggling. The crucial trick was to set the block size with with ftmt to
42 be the same as used by amanda. I've implemented this with this entry in
45 alias char-major-27 zftape
46 pre-install zftape /sbin/swapout 5
47 post-install zftape /bin/ftmt -f /dev/nzqft0 setblk 32768
50 To ease use with firewalls, Amanda has been built with options restricting the
51 use of TCP to the port range 50000-50100, and UDP to the port range 840-860.
53 Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net> reported problems with an Amanda server on which
54 bastille was used with the "restrict system resources" option. See bug
55 118616 in the Debian bug tracking system for more information.
57 Concerns have been expressed about the reliability of 'dump' as a backup tool
58 on live Linux systems. Nothing can guarantee a consistent and meaningful
59 backup of a live filesystem under all circumstances. The tar utility is
60 'essential' in Debian and so will always be around, is not tied to any specific
61 filesystem type, and there are entries in the default amanda.conf file
62 defining dump types using tar.