Upgrading 2.4.5 community edition Client to 2.5 Enterprise Client

Create a directory called /amandamove to hold amanda files during the upgrade:
[root@vmclientcomm /]# mkdir /amandamove

Run this command on the backup server to determine where the gnutar-lists are placed on the client:

-sh-3.00$ amadmin x version  | grep listed_incr_dir
      listed_incr_dir="/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists"

Tar up the gnutar-lists usually located in /usr/local/var/amanda in to the /amandamove directory:

[root@vmclientcomm gnutar-lists]# pwd
/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists
[root@vmclientcomm gnutar-lists]# ls
vmclientcomm.zmanda.com_boot_1.new
[root@vmclientcomm gnutar-lists]# tar -cvf /amandamove/gnutar_list.tar *
vmclientcomm.zmanda.com_boot_1.new

Copy the /var/lib/amanda/.amandahost to /amandamove:

[root@vmclientcomm amanda]# cp /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts /amandamove

Remove the old user amanda from the passwd and shadow files:

[root@vmservercomm ~]# cat /etc/passwd | grep amanda
amanda:x:501:6::/var/lib/amanda:/bin/bash
[root@vmservercomm ~]# cat /etc/shadow | grep amanda
amanda:!!:13276:0:99999:7:::

Remove the old user amanda from the groups:

disk:x:6:root,amanda

Remove the old amanda xinetd files:

[root@vmservercomm ~]# cd /etc/xinetd.d
[root@vmservercomm xinetd.d]# ls | grep amanda
amanda
[root@vmservercomm xinetd.d]# rm amanda
rm: remove regular file `amanda'? y

Remove these amanda directories:

[root@vmclientcomm /]# rm -rf /usr/local/var/amanda
[root@vmclientcomm /]# rm -rf /var/lib/amanda
[root@vmclientcomm /]# rm -rf /tmp/amanda
[root@vmclientcomm sbin]# rm /usr/local/sbin/amrecover

Install the enterprise client rpm:

[root@vmclientcomm client]# rpm -ivh amanda_enterprise-backup_client-2.5.0int9-1.fc4.i386.rpm
warning: amanda_enterprise-backup_client-2.5.0int9-1.fc4.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 3c5d1c92
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
chown: `amandabackup:disk': invalid user
  1:amanda_enterprise-backu########################################### [100%]
Stopping xinetd: [  OK  ]
Starting xinetd: [  OK  ]

Untar the gnutar_list from the /amandamove in to /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists:

[root@vmclientcomm gnutar-lists]# pwd
/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists
[root@vmclientcomm gnutar-lists]# tar -vxf /amandamove/gnutar_list.tar
vmclientcomm.zmanda.com_boot_1.new

Copy the .amandahost file from /amandamove to the /var/lib/amanda directory:

[root@vmclientcomm amandamove]# cp /amandamove/.amandahosts /var/lib/amanda/
cp: overwrite `/var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts'? y

Edit the /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts file to change all amanda user entries to amandabackup:

vmservercomm.zmanda.com amandabackup

Change the ownership to amandabackup:

[root@vmclientcomm amandamove]# chown -R amandabackup:disk  /var/lib/amanda

Run a test restore using amrecover:

[root@vmclientcomm restore]# amrecover test -t vmservercomm -s vmservercomm
AMRECOVER Version 2.5.0int14. Contacting server on vmservercomm ...
220 vmservercomm AMANDA index server (2.5.0int14) ready.
200 Access OK
Setting restore date to today (2006-05-08)
200 Working date set to 2006-05-08.
Scanning /space/amandahold/test...
200 Config set to test.
200 Dump host set to vmclientcomm.zmanda.com.
Trying disk / ...
Trying disk rootfs ...
Use the setdisk command to choose dump disk to recover
amrecover> listdisk
200- List of disk for host vmclientcomm.zmanda.com
201- /boot
200 List of disk for host vmclientcomm.zmanda.com
amrecover> setdisk /boot
200 Disk set to /boot.
amrecover> ls
2006-05-08 vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp
2006-05-08 vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
2006-05-08 lost+found/
2006-05-08 initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp.img
2006-05-08 initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
2006-05-08 grub/
2006-05-08 config-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp
2006-05-08 config-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
2006-05-08 System.map-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp
2006-05-08 System.map-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
2006-05-08 .
amrecover> add config-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
Added /config-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
amrecover> extract
Extracting files using tape drive chg-disk on host vmservercomm.
The following tapes are needed: TEST-2
Restoring files into directory /restore
Continue [?/Y/n]? y
Extracting files using tape drive chg-disk on host vmservercomm.
Load tape TEST-2 now
Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? y
./config-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
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