How To Install amanda on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install amanda on Rocky Linux 8. amanda is A network-capable tape backup solution

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install amanda on Rocky Linux 8.

What is amanda

AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system that allows the administrator of a LAN to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to one or more tape drives or disk files. AMANDA uses native dump and/or GNU tar facilities and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Unix. Newer versions of AMANDA (including this version) can use SAMBA to back up Microsoft(TM) Windows95/NT hosts. The amanda package contains the core AMANDA programs and will need to be installed on both AMANDA clients and AMANDA servers. Note that you will have to install the amanda-client and/or amanda-server packages as well.

We can use yum or dnf to install amanda on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install amanda.

Install amanda on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install amanda using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install amanda

Install amanda on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install amanda using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install amanda

How To Uninstall amanda on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the amanda package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove amanda

amanda Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/amanda
/etc/amanda/DailySet1
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/a252a5f464b318f48080b31d7d98df6beb2a73
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/842dcce09c376b7aa49cfefe3475952ccac7e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/d9cdfa48e4f893cb65e5e3fb0cdcfb70480176
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/7242c34ea697e6b69eb5ba5c3922f16fa8997c
/usr/lib/.build-id/48
/usr/lib/.build-id/48/6417b51d415675f7f71ad4e5e66e567cfdd4ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a/30e4002ca5609dcaf7e6cee093281b221b6200
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/02b3f847676f6efe7a6bbc01d284870093f6fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/69
/usr/lib/.build-id/69/900b947bb38c2e11799fb2858720136d99460d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b/88af87589ebe65cd6e308058e11ae0ba514d56
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a/6981507b4dd92893e1d07e4f837e8a1b767d16
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/e4ae3caff8da83229cda41b73726c9754c3829
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9/aac79279709d6e655937425b76d56761a53e14
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1/02d099151c48807fe6366cc3ca1be87756f7f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/9a21f4420d3be28ceed3255f080d97d5320b1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7/09ae5edb905a701759e2f7640484ffa1d2c56f
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8/d67c8ece01c598c80c91b25052e0e87266f715
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1/22315c53507026b5c788f24127da4406b46533
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8/e89dec2efd7709a4b1b4e677ae48496f5b2133
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/474df401a1e9a432e6662b05c9b02e19f8d74e
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/a3a9321351d8ece9612546fa14ee118b1f6998
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/a53fd481a5a2a56379306280c0ffaf4af1c3ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8/4373546d49afbad1cbb799c45c0c82ff932e94
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8/95e16c93bf44e43548c789dccbc0b98c787e02
/usr/lib/systemd/system/amanda-udp.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/amanda-udp.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/amanda.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/lib/systemd/system/kamanda.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/lib64/amanda
/usr/lib64/amanda/amanda-sh-lib.sh
/usr/lib64/amanda/amandad
/usr/lib64/amanda/amcat.awk
/usr/lib64/amanda/amndmjob
/usr/lib64/amanda/amplot.awk
/usr/lib64/amanda/amplot.g
/usr/lib64/amanda/amplot.gp
/usr/lib64/amanda/ndmjob
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Amdump.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Amflush.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Amservice.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Application
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Application.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Application/Zfs.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Archive.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/BigIntCompat.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Changer
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Changer.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Changer/aggregate.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Changer/disk.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Changer/diskflat.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Changer/multi.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Changer/ndmp.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Changer/null.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Changer/rait.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Changer/robot.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Changer/single.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/CheckDump.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Chunker
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Chunker/Controller.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Chunker/Protocol.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Chunker/Scribe.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Cleanup.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/ClientService.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Cmdfile.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Cmdline.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Config
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Config.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Config/FoldingHash.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Constants.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Curinfo
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Curinfo.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Curinfo/Info.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/DB
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/DB.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/DB/Catalog.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Debug.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Device.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Disklist.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Extract.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Feature.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/FetchDump
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/FetchDump.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/FetchDump/Application.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/FetchDump/ClientApplication.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/FetchDump/Local.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Header.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Holding.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/IPC
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/IPC/Binary.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/IPC/LineProtocol.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Index.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Interactivity
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Interactivity.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Interactivity/email.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Interactivity/stdin.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Interactivity/tty.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Interactivity/tty_email.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Label.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Logfile.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/MainLoop.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Message.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/NDMP.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Paths.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Policy.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Process.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Recovery
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Recovery.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Recovery/Clerk.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Recovery/Planner.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Recovery/Scan.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Report
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Report.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Report/human.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Report/json.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Report/json_raw.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Report/postscript.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Report/xml.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Rest
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Rest/Amcheck.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Rest/Configs.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Rest/Dles.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Rest/Dumps.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Rest/Labels.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Rest/Report.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Rest/Runs.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Rest/Services.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Rest/Status.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Rest/Storages
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Rest/Storages.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Rest/Storages/Labels.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Rest/Version.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Restore.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/ScanInventory.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Script.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Script_App.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Service
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Service.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Service/Amidxtaped.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Service/Restore.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Status.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Storage.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Tapelist.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Taper
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Taper/Controller.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Taper/Protocol.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Taper/Scan
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Taper/Scan.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Taper/Scan/lexical.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Taper/Scan/oldest.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Taper/Scan/traditional.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Taper/Scribe.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Taper/Worker.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Tests.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Util.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Vault.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/Xfer.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Amanda/XferServer.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Application
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Application/libApplication.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Archive
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Archive/libArchive.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Cmdfile
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Cmdfile/libCmdfile.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Cmdline
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Cmdline/libCmdline.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Config
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Config/libConfig.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Debug
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Debug/libDebug.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Device
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Device/libDevice.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Disklist
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Disklist/libDisklist.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Feature
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Feature/libFeature.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Header
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Header/libHeader.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/IPC
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/IPC/Binary
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/IPC/Binary/libBinary.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Logfile
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Logfile/libLogfile.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/MainLoop
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/MainLoop/libMainLoop.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/NDMP
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/NDMP/libNDMP.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Tapelist
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Tapelist/libTapelist.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Tests
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Tests/libTests.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Util
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Util/libUtil.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Xfer
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/Xfer/libXfer.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/XferServer
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Amanda/XferServer/libXferServer.so
/usr/sbin/amaespipe
/usr/sbin/amandad
/usr/sbin/amarchiver
/usr/sbin/amcrypt
/usr/sbin/amcrypt-ossl
/usr/sbin/amcrypt-ossl-asym
/usr/sbin/amcryptsimple
/usr/sbin/amgetconf
/usr/sbin/amgpgcrypt
/usr/sbin/amplot
/usr/sbin/amssl
/usr/share/doc/amanda
/usr/share/doc/amanda/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/amanda/README
/usr/share/licenses/amanda
/usr/share/licenses/amanda/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/man/man5/amanda-archive-format.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/amanda.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/amanda-auth-ssl.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/amanda-auth.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/amanda-compatibility.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/amanda-match.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/amanda-scripts.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amaespipe.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amanda.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amarchiver.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amcleanupdisk.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amcrypt-ossl-asym.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amcrypt-ossl.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amcrypt.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amcryptsimple.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amgetconf.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amgpgcrypt.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amplot.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amssl.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/script-email.8.gz
/var/lib/amanda
/var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts
/var/log/amanda
/var/log/amanda/amandad

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install amanda on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.