How To Install amanda.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install amanda.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. amanda.x86_64 is A network-capable tape backup solution

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install amanda.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `amanda.x86_64`

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 to install amanda.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install amanda.x86_64.

Install amanda.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install amanda.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install amanda.x86_64

How To Uninstall amanda.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the amanda.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove amanda.x86_64

amanda.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/amanda
/etc/amanda/DailySet1
/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/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/share/doc/amanda-3.3.3
/usr/share/doc/amanda-3.3.3/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/amanda-3.3.3/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/amanda-3.3.3/README
/usr/share/man/man5/amanda-archive-format.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/amanda.conf.5.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/script-email.8.gz
/var/lib/amanda
/var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts
/var/log/amanda

References

amanda.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install amanda.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.