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-Amanda 2.4 - System-Specific Installation Notes
-
-Please read the notes that correspond to the architectures you are
-installing for. If you find additional gotchas, or anything incorrect
-in these notes, please send your updates to amanda-hackers@amanda.org,
-after checking that they are not known/fixed problems in the amanda
-patches page: http://www.amanda.org/patches.html
-
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-Solaris 2.6
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-
-You may have compilation errors on statfs.c if you're running, on a
-Solaris 2.6 host, a gcc that was not build on a Solaris 2.6 host.
-This happens because gcc stores fixed copies of some Solaris header
-files on an internal directory. You must rebuild gcc if you get this
-kind of trouble. Note, however, that gcc 2.7.2.3 does not support
-Solaris 2.6, you should upgrade to 2.8.0 or higher, or egcs.
-
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-Trusted Solaris
----------------
-
-According to Julian Stevens <julian.stevens@baedsl.co.uk>, the format
-of inetd.conf on Trusted Solaris 1.2 is a bit different. Just before
-the user name, you should insert the word `untrusted':
-
-amanda dgram udp wait untrusted amuser /usr/local/libexec/amandad amandad
-
-The patch-system script is *NOT* aware of this detail; you must fix it
-yourself.
-
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-SunOS 4.x
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-
-A bug in GNU tar 1.12 causes it to miscalculate (in fact, to
-misreport) the size of filesystems. A patch for GNU tar is available
-in the patches directory.
-
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-Ultrix
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-
-The Ultrix dump program contains an explicit check that it is being
-run by root. This defeats the usual practice of a non-root "operator"
-userid for dumps. For this reason, the rundump program (a setuid-root
-wrapper for dump) is enabled by default. If you find rundump is not
-necessary for you, just configure --without-rundump.
-
-
-The Ultrix restore program will fail if it is not connected to a tty.
-Since the restore program is invoked in the clients in order to create
-index files, and it the client is not connected to a tty, index
-creation will fail. Using GNUTAR instead of DUMP is an option.
-Thanks to Edwin Wiles <ewiles@mclean.sterling.com> for the
-investigation. Another alternative proposed by Martyn Johnson
-<Martyn.Johnson@cl.cam.ac.uk> is to use a modified restore program:
-use a binary program editor and replace `/dev/tty' with `/dev/nul',
-for instance, and link /dev/nul to /dev/null. Note that the chosen
-file name must be exactly 8 bytes long, otherwise you'll break the
-restore program. A nice one-liner perl script by Martyn Johnson will
-do the trick (make sure you preserve a copy of the original restore
-program, it will be rewritten by running this script!):
-
-perl -pi -e 'BEGIN { $/ = "/dev/tty" } s-$/-/dev/nul-' restore
-
-
-The Ultrix C compiler seems to be too broken to compile Amanda. You
-are likely to need gcc or egcs.
-
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-HP/UX
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-
-You may run into an internal /bin/sh limit when running the configure
-script. The error message is:
-
- ./configure: sh internal 2K buffer overflow
-
-Using /bin/posix/sh usually works around the problem. Another
-solution is to install GNU bash and use it instead of /bin/sh.
-
-
-If `configure' complains about not finding `lex', you'll have to get
-`flex' installed. Look for its URL in docs/INSTALL.
-
-
-If you use logical volumes, you may refer to mountpoints or full
-device pathnames instead of device names in the disk list file.
-
-
-According to Stan Brown <stanb@awod.com>, amverify won't work with
-HP/UX's stock `mt'. The work-around is to install GNU cpio, that
-contains an implementation of `mt', and edit amverify so that MT
-points to GNU mt and MTOPT is `-f', or reconfigure and rebuild amanda
-from scratch, making sure it finds GNU mt before the stock mt in the
-PATH.
-
-
-If you have vxfs filesystems to back up, amanda will pick vxdump
-automatically.
-
-
-GNU tar 1.12 will incorrectly report the size of backups. There's a
-patch in the patches directory that fixes this problem.
-
-
-The use of `amhpfixdevs' is deprecated, since you can list
-mount-points or full device names in the disklist. The script may be
-removed in future releases of Amanda.
-
-
-Sometimes you may get the error message `Link severed' from an HP/UX
-client. This is just a cute name the developers of HP/UX found for
-`Network error'. Reported by Michael Brehl <mbr@condor.de>
-
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-Linux
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-
-Linux hosts intended to back up efs partitions with dump should
-install the dump package, as it is not installed by default on most
-Linux distributions. It is possible to find compiled versions of dump
-on most Linux sites and CD-ROMs.
-
-Note, however, that DUMP for Linux has been quite unreliable,
-sometimes being unable to perform backups, producing weird error
-messages such as `master/slave protocol botched', and sometimes
-creating unrestorable dump images, especially of active filesystems.
-The first problem can sometimes be fixed by cleaning up outdated
-entries in /etc/dumpdates, but your best bet is probably GNU tar.
-
-
-Make sure the user that runs configure has permission to run the dump
-program, otherwise configure may misdetect an ability of dump to
-accept a -E (for estimates) switch.
-
-
-GNUtar 1.11.8, distributed with some Linux versions, will cause index
-failures (Index returned -1). Upgrading to GNUtar 1.12 fixes this
-problem. This is not a Linux-specific problem, but it is quite common
-in this platform.
-
-
-Amanda now supports the ftape driver version 3.04d. It adjusts the
-blocksize automatically to 32k and supports QIC volume tables. More
-details con be found in the file ZFTAPE in this directory.
-
-
-Some releases of dump for Linux, such as the one distributed with
-Debian 2.0, have modified dump so that it stores dumpdates in
-/var/lib. If this is your case, you should create a link to it in
-/etc. Suggested by David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
-
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-Digital Unix 4
---------------
-
-According to Michael Galloway <mgx@spruce.lsd.ornl.gov>, the stock
-DUX4 dump is broken. There is a patch available at
-ftp://ftp.service.digital.com/public/dunix/v4.0b/duv40bas00005-19970926.README
-
-
-When both dump and vdump are available, amanda will use vdump for
-backing up advfs filesystems only, and dump will be used for the rest.
-If you'd rather back up all filesystems with vdump, #undef DUMP in
-config/config.h after running configure.
-
-
-Unfortunately, the output of `dump -E' incorrectly matches a line of
-output from SAMBA, which gets Amanda's estimate process confused.
-client-src/sendsize.c will refuse to compile if both
-HAVE_DUMP_ESTIMATE and SAMBA_CLIENT are defined in config/config.h.
-Amanda will work correctly if you undefine HAVE_DUMP_ESTIMATE in
-config/config.h; if you prefer to have incorrect estimates for SAMBA
-backups, follow the instructions in sendsize.c on removing the
-compile-time error.
-
-
-According to Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.huji.ac.il>, DEC compiler version
-"DEC C V5.2-033 on Digital UNIX V4.0 (Rev. 564)" (obtained with "cc -V")
-does not build Amanda properly, in particular, taper.c. Using gcc is OK.
-
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-Sinix 5.43 (Reliant Unix)
--------------------------
-
-The use of `amsinixfixdevs' is deprecated, since you can list
-mount-points or full device names in the disklist. The script may be
-removed in future releases of Amanda.
-
-Sinix port originally by Michael Schmitz <mschmitz@iname.com>.
-
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-IRIX (all)
-----------
-
-When setting the tape device name in either amanda.conf or one of the
-changer configuration files, make sure you specify the "variable" device
-name, which has a 'v' on the end. If not, IRIX will write 4KByte blocks
-instead of the 32KByte blocks Amanda tells it to. This apparantly works
-OK unless you take the tape to a non-IRIX system, where amrestore will
-complain about a short (4096) read.
-
-If you do end up in this situation, the dd command to use to pipe into
-your system restore program is:
-
- dd if=/dev/whatever bs=4k skip=8 | ...
-
-
-Jean-Francois Malouin <Jean-Francois.Malouin@bic.mni.mcgill.ca>
-reports that, if you are going to use an IRIX host as the tape server,
-you *must* patch your system with *all* kernel and scsi rollup
-patches, otherwise you may end up with useless tapes, due to tape
-rewinding after short periods of inactivity. See
-http://www-viz.tamu.edu/~sgi-faq/ for more details.
-
-
-Some unpatched version of xfsdump are reported as not printing
-estimates. This causes estimates to take much longer than they had
-to, because backups are always performed twice. According to Mike
-Acar <mike@kentinfoworks.com>, patch 2333 for IRIX 5.3 and 6.1 will
-fix this problem.
-
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-IRIX 6
-------
-
-Seems like SGI `make' program is a bit broken, in a way that causes it
-to rebuild some files if doesn't have to if you happen to run `make'
-again. Using GNU make fixes this problem.
-
-
-If you have xfs filesystems to back up, amanda will pick xfsdump
-automatically.
-
-
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-SCO
----
-
-Jens Krause <jens@transcom.de> has reported some problems with GNU tar
-1.12 on SCO Release 5. Although the `sparse' files patch was applied,
-GNU tar would consistently crash. GNU tar had to be built linked with
-malloc-libraries, and the `--sparse' switches had to be removed from
-client-src/sendbackup-gnutar.c and client-src/sendsize.c.
-
-
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-FreeBSD 3.0
------------
-
-chg-scsi was not updated to support the new camlib.h-dependent chio.h,
-so chg-scsi will be automatically disabled if camlib.h is found. You
-may use chg-chio instead.
-
-
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-FreeBSD 5.1
------------
-
-Nicolas Ecarnot <nicolas.ecarnot@accim.com> discovered that for
-FreeBSD 5.1 (maybe earlier, and surely further), you have to set the
-net.inet.udp.maxdgram TCP/IP variable to 65535. The default is 9216,
-and this is a problem when trying to backup a large number of clients
-as indicated by errors in during amcheck or the estimate phase.
-
-You can just run the command:
-
- sysctl net.inet.udp.maxdgram=63535
-
-but this won't last until the next reboot.
-
-To make it permanent, just add this line:
-
- net.inet.udp.maxdgram=65535
-
-in the /etc/sysctl.conf file.
-
-
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-AIX
------------
-
-sendsize is reported to coredump on AIX 4.3.3, this is a linking problem,
-try configuring amanda with --disable-shared option.
-
-
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-Microsoft Windows
------------------
-
-Although amanda won't run standalone on MS-Windows hosts, it is
-possible to use it to back up their disks, by using SAMBA. Please
-read docs/SAMBA for more information.
-
-SAMBA may be unable to back up some files due to file locking
-restrictions. Particularly, paging and registry files usually present
-problems. Backing up page files is pointless, but registry files are
-quite important to back up. It is possible to create regular files
-that contain registry information by using the Regback utility, from
-the Windows NT Resource Kit. Unfortunately, is not part of the
-Windows NT standard distribution, you have to purchase it separately.
-Thanks to Ernie Oporto <ernie_oporto@mentorg.com> for the tip.
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