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-Chapter 1. Amanda 2.5.0 - System-Specific Installation Notes
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-Amanda Core Team
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-Original text
-AMANDA Core Team
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-Stefan G. Weichinger
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-AMANDA Core Team
-<sgw@amanda.org>
-Table of Contents
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- Solaris_2.6
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- Solaris
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- Trusted_Solaris
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- SunOS_4.x
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- Ultrix
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- HP/UX
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- Linux
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- Digital_Unix_4
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- Sinix_5.43_(Reliant_Unix)
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- IRIX_(all)
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- IRIX_6
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- IRIX_6.5.x
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- SCO
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- FreeBSD_3.0
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- FreeBSD_4.9
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- FreeBSD_5.1
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- AIX
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- Microsoft_Windows
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- Mac_OS_X
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-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 mailto://amanda-hackers@amanda.org after checking
-that they are not known/fixed problems in the Amanda patches page: http://
-www.amanda.org/patches/.
-
- 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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- Solaris
-
-You may get errors running make: Assure that you use the BSD-version of make,
-usually /usr/ccs/bin/make. Add /usr/ccs/bin to the path before running
-configure.
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- Trusted Solaris
-
-According to Julian Stevens <julian.stevens@baedsl.co.uk>, the format of inetd
-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.
-
- SunOS 4.x
-
-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.
-
- Ultrix
-
-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 run
-
- 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 GNU-
-tar 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.
-
- HP/UX
-
-You may run into an internal /bin/sh limit when running the configure script.
-The error message is:
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- ./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 Amanda_Installation_Notes.
-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>
-
- Linux
-
-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.
-GNU-tar 1.11.8, distributed with some Linux versions, will cause index failures
-(Index returned -1). Upgrading to GNU-tar 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 can 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>
-
- 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 client-src/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.
-
- 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>.
-
- 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:
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- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- IRIX 6.5.x
-
-Luc Lalonde <Luc.Lalonde@polymtl.ca> contributed the following notes:
-If you use a jukebox, you must set the ownership of the robot-changer device to
-the Amanda operator:group in /etc/ioperms. Here's my configuration:
-
- /etc/ioperms: /dev/scsi/sc8d6l0 0600 amanda backup
-
-Otherwise the ownership:group is changed to "root:sys" after each reboot. When
-you do upgrades, check the file /var/sysgen/master.d/scsi to see if it has
-changed. Otherwise your jukebox could be rendered unuseable. In particular,
-check if it has been replaced by a new version and renamed to "./scsi.O/.".
-If you use the Amanda package provided by freeware.sgi.com, you are not
-affected by the first question since at compile time the Amanda operator is
-"root:sys".
-
- 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. GNUtar 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.
-
- 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.
-
- FreeBSD 4.9
-
-Sep. 28th, 2004: Jason Miller <jwm@interlinc.net> reported problems with
-setting up the Amanda-client on FreeBSD 4.9. He wrote:
-Due to the need for read permissions for Amanda-client the default user and
-group for this on FreeBSD 4.9 is "operator:operator" which I found a write up
-on that as well. Just a note the port wanted to install it with these user
-permissions by default and I initially changed them to match my Redhat 9.0
-install. So just doing a
-make distclean uninstall install Amanda_SERVER=servername
-fixed that for me. Then I just followed the below instructions and everything
-was good to go.
-Refer to this link for more details: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-
-pr.cgi?pr=59302.
-
- 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 file /etc/sysctl.conf.
-
- AIX
-
-sendsize is reported to coredump on AIX 4.3.3, this is a linking problem, try
-configuring Amanda with the option "--disable-shared".
-
- 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 Backup_PC_hosts_using
-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, it 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.
-
- Mac OS X
-
-For notes on how to setup Amanda under Apple's OS X, please refer to http://
-web.brandeis.edu/pages/view/Bio/AmandaMacOSXCompileNotes, written by Steven
-Karel<karel@brandeis.edu>. Thanks to Jose L.Hales-Garcia <jose@stat.ucla.edu>
-for the tip.
-
-Note
-
-Refer to http://www.amanda.org/docs/systemnotes.html for the current version of
-this document.
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