This page describes the environmental requirements you should verify before running the install program. The Amanda Enterprise components required on each are described in Downloading and Installing Amanda Enterprise Components.
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.
Backup server performs various CPU, Memory, Network, and Disk intensive operations. While hardware requirements will vary based on your backup environment, we recommend a server with at least 4GB of memory and a modern quad-core server-class CPU. The bandwidth of the network link between backup server and your network switch is also very critical. If network bonding is supported by your switch, we recommend providing a bonded connection to the backup server.
setsebool -P allow_execstack on
The following packages are required on the Amanda backup server and clients:
Program Dependencies: The following programs are needed for Linux backup server and client
These additional programs are required on the Linux backup server
Library Dependencies: The server packages are 32bit, so 32bit libraries are required. Native 32bit systems already have the required libraries. 64bit systems require the 32bit compatibility libraries. They are available for RHEL/CentOS/SLES/Oracle Enterprise/Fedora/Open Suse Linux platforms. On Ubuntu/Debian platforms, they may not be available for older platforms. On Ubuntu/Debian platforms, they may not be available for older platforms. See Linux Debian/Ubuntu for more details.
These packages are installed by default on most Linux distributions. If you need to add them, you can use yum, apt-get, or yast. Packages can be obtained from the distribution media or from a distribution repository (run either as root):
#yum install package_name
or
#apt-get install package_name
or
#yast -i package_name
In the case of yast on SLES, you can also use the YaST Online Update (YOU) to install new package and to keep the SLES distribution updated (which is recommended).
For example:
Amanda server installation on 64bit RHEL 6/CentOS 6/Oracle Enterprise Linux will require the following packages:
# yum install glibc.i686 ncurses-libs.i686 libgcc.i686 compat-libstdc++-33.i686 zlib.i686 glib2.i686 readline.i686 libidn.i686 libcurl.i686 libstdc++.i686 curl.1686 ncurse.i686 xinetd gnupg tar mailx
Amanda server installation on 64bit Debian 6 will require the following packages:
# apt-get install xinetd gnuplot mailutils gettext mt-st mtx lsscsi libcurl3-gnutls libglib2.0-0 libpcre3 libidn11 libssh2-1 libcurl3 libreadline6 lib32gcc1 ia32-libs libglib2.0-0 lsb-release
Amanda server installation on 64bit Debian 7 will require the following packages:
# apt-get install libc6:i386 gcc-4.7-base:i386 libgcc1:i386 libglib2.0-0:i386 libffi5:i386 libpcre3:i386 libselinux:i386 zlib1g:i386
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 Amanda backup server requires following 32-bit package(s):
Note for 64bit Debian 5 or earlier and Ubuntu 10.04 or earlier Amanda servers: The best way to install 32-bit version library packages on 64bit Debian/Ubuntu platforms is with getlibs, which is described in more detail in this Zmanda Knowledgebase article. Alternatively, libreadline5 and libreadline6 32bit version can be obtained by installing lib32readline5 package and lib32readline6 package respectively.
The Amanda backup client requires the following 32-bit packages; AE 64-bit backup client requires the following 64-bit packages
To run the Amanda Enterprise Backup Server (or a 32-bit Amanda client) on 64-bit RedHat/CentOS/Oracle Linux/Fedora/Open Suse requires these same packages in 32-bit versions (please note that these packages might depend on other packages and so use tools such as yum, apt-get to install these packages).
ncurses.i686
64bit RHEL6/Oracle Enterprise Linux 6/CentOS 6 will also need following packages:
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 nss-softokn-freebl.i686 glib2.i686 libselinux.i686 gamin.i686 readline.i686 ncurses-libs.i686 zlib.i686 libstdc++.i686 libgcc.i686
On 64bit SLES 11 platforms, these packages are called
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.