How To Install amanda-client on CentOS 8
amanda-client is The client component of the AMANDA tape backup system
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install amanda-client on CentOS 8.
What is amanda-client
The Amanda-client package should be installed on any machine that will be backed up by AMANDA (including the server if it also needs to be backed up). You will also need to install the amanda package on each AMANDA client machine.
We can use yum or dnf to install amanda-client on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install amanda-client.
Install amanda-client 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-client using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install amanda-client
Install amanda-client 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-client using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install amanda-client
How To Uninstall amanda-client on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the amanda-client package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove amanda-client
amanda-client Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/amanda-security.conf
/etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda-client-postgresql.conf
/etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda-client.conf
/etc/amanda/amanda-security.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/98edadb9f1017e81e8f0899b9fa78ee6f20afa
/usr/lib/.build-id/31
/usr/lib/.build-id/31/d83f6954e76db1195b32ced6c00ce975d362b0
/usr/lib/.build-id/42
/usr/lib/.build-id/42/167f27eeee3828373d0ecdc9d16fff6f11f984
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/00b36c615a6fe7e467709b8e7b7c282ced86bd
/usr/lib/.build-id/51/170d41f823ef1be94a9ba861e26806305e641a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/e5434301e28303173120bfe9dd12e8dc30613d
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/5e900c1f6e3c1667a237a89719d8156982c1c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0/6524864567d72f5577c3b1984d48c22a09ce3d
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1/7b320dba4aaa41b60cf2b5c4c3a8dde7e7cf16
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9/49328a2aeb5337aa9d289052527347564bc19a
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb/b760842d014f6c25c93c6c06e841f4a1ff22c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/df
/usr/lib/.build-id/df/019be7810899db7de7ba1a401d793076cef744
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/11866f6ff6998b3edc1b1b660dd951e852305a
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/b223ed3d2d73327f1dcc0662c42d8def218eca
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/909cf64577dd7341f0f18826b8711e65ed9883
/usr/lib64/amanda/application
/usr/lib64/amanda/application/ambsdtar
/usr/lib64/amanda/application/amgtar
/usr/lib64/amanda/application/amlog-script
/usr/lib64/amanda/application/ampgsql
/usr/lib64/amanda/application/amrandom
/usr/lib64/amanda/application/amraw
/usr/lib64/amanda/application/amsamba
/usr/lib64/amanda/application/amstar
/usr/lib64/amanda/application/amsuntar
/usr/lib64/amanda/application/amzfs-sendrecv
/usr/lib64/amanda/application/amzfs-snapshot
/usr/lib64/amanda/application/script-email
/usr/lib64/amanda/application/script-fail
/usr/lib64/amanda/calcsize
/usr/lib64/amanda/killpgrp
/usr/lib64/amanda/noop
/usr/lib64/amanda/patch-system
/usr/lib64/amanda/restore
/usr/lib64/amanda/rundump
/usr/lib64/amanda/runtar
/usr/lib64/amanda/selfcheck
/usr/lib64/amanda/sendbackup
/usr/lib64/amanda/senddiscover
/usr/lib64/amanda/sendsize
/usr/lib64/amanda/teecount
/usr/sbin/ambackup
/usr/sbin/amdump_client
/usr/sbin/amoldrecover
/usr/sbin/amrecover
/usr/share/man/man5/amanda-client.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/amanda-security.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/amanda-applications.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ambackup.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ambsdtar.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amdump_client.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amgtar.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amoldrecover.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ampgsql.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amraw.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amrecover.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amsamba.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amstar.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amsuntar.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amzfs-sendrecv.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amzfs-snapshot.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/killpgrp.8.gz
/var/lib/amanda/amandates
/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install amanda-client on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.