How To Install amanda on CentOS 8
amanda is A network-capable tape backup solution
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install amanda on CentOS 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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install amanda.
Install amanda on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install amanda using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install amanda
Install amanda on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
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 CentOS 8
To uninstall only the amanda package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove amanda
amanda Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/amanda
/etc/amanda/DailySet1
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/17
/usr/lib/.build-id/17/93e224e355c0caf8fcf3589043d47a76b0992b
/usr/lib/.build-id/25
/usr/lib/.build-id/25/98facf624df5d3520459889f2312751a633d0d
/usr/lib/.build-id/25/bd8728d29064658554cadc034bd9f21f2d0441
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a/c67a08ab2b6f4719e02418e7b9a2cceb26c474
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/b418acabd17f70665d99efcfc341b3fe8b6957
/usr/lib/.build-id/38
/usr/lib/.build-id/38/afbe68c7d07479c644f7433bada1e23fb27e15
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b/0acec4202d39fff82c0101032f47c0d77b702e
/usr/lib/.build-id/52
/usr/lib/.build-id/52/9ce939d16ce6e3aedd71b64ab496464da83e0d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/987dee968273f977c1ac846f551419ea0be193
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/4363f7c5d37dde768bf3e8b679666b9c9c9038
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/6b2a798a029dfea2c17f681d83d733fd50c2f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/98e43d37163063ede670bf3124423fc6402e47
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/6407c15405273250fb043244d21363ae66d6af
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/ce0face935ada81ef9d6967f7919bdb768b6cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/45d9b04c43c5bb7a11a423464e3fa957b6345d
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa/8341c9787329eda034a381cf6596e77ce3f7d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/af
/usr/lib/.build-id/af/12f9107257832931796a430fd9d98252be62fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/0cf52e5f47b5184d33cc1011679e69b64c7db7
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb/330310ec682e9c1e8f5d5a8f206a75e2571542
/usr/lib/.build-id/de
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/0130cfdc1122321d1c8b097587e09216731d43
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9/8cf0b5453a9b11796ba26eb523e4a1403dee69
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/45ec8556479b35a2d5c2c56cfd6a7ea0ee7350
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/652a1ab9c54b174d1026848111337e8e1695a4
/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 CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.