Amanda is one of the complex installation as it has got many features and one can be easily be confused when
installing it for first time. So i have thought of sharing minimal installation steps to jump start your backup
First download Server and Client packages of amanda depending on operating system you use from below
location
http://www.zmanda.com/downloads/community/Amanda/
I have taken 2 ubuntu machines 9.04
Server -- 192.168.155.108 - amanda-backup-server_3.1.0-1Ubuntu904_i386.deb
Client -- 192.168.155.109 - amanda-backup-client_3.1.0-1Ubuntu904_i386.deb
after installation just update your repository
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On Server do this
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#apt-get update
then install all build essentials required for a package to install
#apt-get install build-essential
afther that install debian package
#dpkg -i amanda-backup-server_3.1.0-1Ubuntu904_i386.deb
I've noticed that if I try to install this package it doesn't seem to work because of missing dependent librararies typing
#apt-get -f install
will solve dependency problem
After installation of that package
User
amandabackup
group
disk
will be created.
add password for the user
amandabackup
# passwd amandabackup
after adding user we need to create directory where our backup has to be stored.
# mkdir -p /data/amanda/vtape/DailySet1
# chown amandabackup:disk /data/amanda/vtape/DailySet1
# chmod -R 750 /data/amanda/vtape/DailySet1
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On Client do this
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Install client package same as you installed on server
here also user
amandabackup will get created
change password for user
amandabackup
#passwd amandabackup
The client configuration file of amanda is
/etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf
Change this line:
tapedev "tape:/dev/YOUR-TAPE-DEVICE-HERE" # your tape device
to this:
tapedev "file://data/amanda/vtape/DailySet1" # your tape device
this is the location where we are taking backup.
after configuring go to server again.
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On Server do this
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We have created a backup directory and created user amandabackup and set its password on Server
now switch user to amandabackup
# su – amandabackup
then enter this command to configure server configuration file for DailySet1
# amserverconfig DailySet1 --template harddisk --tapedev /data/amanda/vtape/DailySet1 --mailto root@localhost --dumpcycle 1week --runspercycle 5 --tapecycle 12 --runtapes 1
the output will be:
Now adding Client 192.168.155.109 on server give second command
Explaining:
amserverconfig : command that creates the initial Amanda configuration
daily : the name of this backup set
template disk : this backup is written to disk (or “virtual” tape -vtape-)
tapedev /var/lib/amanda/vtapes/daily : this is the path of the vtapes
mailto me@mydomain.com : Amanda emails the backup report to this address
dumpcycle 5 : This backup cycle has 5 days (lets say ... Mon to Fri)
runspercycle 1 : This backup runs only once per day
tapecycle 20 : 20 vtapes (4 weeks) on the cycle
runtapes 1 : The maximum number of tapes (in this case “vtapes”) used in a single run
# amaddclient --config DailySet1 --client 192.168.155.109 --diskdev /data/backupme --dumptype comp-user-tar
/data/backupme is the directory on the client you want to take backup
output will be :
after adding client now everything is ready we should test its working or not
we can test it using
amcheck command
# amcheck DailySet1
the output will be:
Now checking is successful if you see 0 problems found in the output as shown above.
now we are ready to take first backup with the command
amdump
# amdump DailySet1
This command will take backup and the status is emailed to root@localhost of server as we have configured above.
the mail will be like this :
From amandabackup@amandaserver Tue Jul 20 15:19:10 2010
Return-Path:
X-Original-To: root@localhost
Delivered-To: root@localhost
Received: by amandaserver (Postfix, from userid 1001)
id 98122602ED; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:19:10 -0400 (EDT)
To: root@localhost
Subject: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR July 20, 2010
Message-Id: <20100720191910.98122602ED@amandaserver>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:19:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: amandabackup@amandaserver (Amanda)
Hostname: amandaserver
Org : DailySet1
Config : DailySet1
Date : July 20, 2010
These dumps were to tape DailySet1-1.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: 1 new tape.
The next new tape already labelled is: DailySet1-2.
STATISTICS:
Total Full Incr.
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Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:00
Run Time (hrs:min) 0:00
Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00
Output Size (meg) 1.6 1.6 0.0
Original Size (meg) 1.6 1.6 0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%) 98.8 98.8 --
Filesystems Dumped 1 1 0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 163.1 163.1 --
Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00
Tape Size (meg) 1.6 1.6 0.0
Tape Used (%) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Filesystems Taped 1 1 0
Parts Taped 1 1 0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 160.1 160.1 --
USAGE BY TAPE:
Label Time Size % Nb Nc
DailySet1-1 0:00 0G 0.0 1 1
NOTES:
planner: Adding new disk 192.168.155.109:/home/vxadmin.
taper: tape DailySet1-1 kb 1601 fm 1 [OK]
DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-GB OUT-GB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
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192.168.155. -me/vxadmin 0 0 0 98.8 0:10 163.2 0:10 160.1
(brought to you by Amanda version 3.1.0)
So you have succesfully taken backup of your first client
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