This page describes the environmental requirements you should verify before running the install program.
Throughout this document, The Amanda Client refers the system being backed up by the Amanda Enterprise Server,which also called the Amanda Server or backup server.
The following packages are required on the Amanda clients:
The Amanda backup client requires 32-bit version of following Debian packages; Amanda 64-bit backup client requires the following 64-bit version Debian packages
The AE 32bit client requires the following 32-bit packages; AE 64-bit backup client requires the following 64-bit packages
For RHEL/CentOS 5 and earlier versions and Fedora, please install the following packages:
ncurses.i686
libgcc.i686 (for fedora platforms only)
For RHEL/CentOS 6, please install the following packages:
For example: In case of 64bit RHEL6/CentOS 6/Oracle Enterprise Linux, following yum command line should be used (this list includes direct Amanda Enterprise and indirect dependencies)
# yum install glibc.i686 xinetd nss-softokn-freebl.i686 glib2.i686 libselinux.i686 gamin.i686 readline.i686 ncurses-libs.i686 zlib.i686 libstdc++.i686 libgcc.i686 perl-Switch perl-JSON perl-Encode-Locale perl-Data-Dumper
On 64bit SLES 11 platforms, these packages are called
32-bit packages for dependencies are required for Solaris clients.
It is easier to install dependencies by using Solaris pkgutil tool available at the http://www.opencsw.org/get-it/pkgutil/ It automatically get all indirect dependencies. Use the following pkgutil command to install dependencies on Solaris server (you can install gnupg2 instead of gnupg):
pkgutil -i gtar gnupg gawk libgcc_s1 mtx
Use the following pkgutil command to install dependencies on Solaris Client (you can install gnupg2 instead of gnupg):
pkgutil -i perl gtar gnupg libcurl4
Download and install the package dependencies available from the Zmanda Network download page when you select Mac OSX as the client platform.
The amandabackup user must exist, and be added to the Users, Backup Operators, and Administrators groups. Windows clients must open inbound TCP ports 10080 and 10081, and outbound TCP ports 700:800. Windows application backups (licensed as separate agents) require that the Volume Shadow Copy Service be enabled and started. To prevent excessive memory consumption on application backup clients, Zmanda also recommends that you install the following VSS hotfix from Microsoft:
Link to Microsoft Knowledgebase
See the The Zmanda Windows Client User's Manual for further details on Windows client installation.
index_server "localhost" # your amindexd server tape_server "localhost" # your amidxtaped server
Change "localhost" to match to the hostname of the Amanda backup server.
On MacOSX systems, run the following command: launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.amanda.zmrecover.plist. To re-enable the standard client restore mechanism, enter: launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.amanda.zmrecover.plist.
The following browsers have been tested and verified to work with the Zmanda Management Console:
In all cases you must have JavaScript enabled. Note that if JavaScript is enabled during a session either in the browser itself or in a plug-in such as NoScript, you must log out of the ZMC and then log in again to avoid potential problems with the interface. If you are browsing over a slow connection such as dial-up, loading of the JavaScript files may time out after 15 seconds with the following error:
ZMC has not yet loaded required javascript files. Do you want to continue waiting for these files to load?
Clicking OK will cause the ZMC to try again for 60 seconds. If that fails, another error. If it takes more than 60 seconds to load the JavaScript files, logging out and then in again will usually give the browser enough time to cache all necessary JavaScript files and allow the ZMC to load.