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:
Solaris 10/Open Solaris
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 compat-libstdc++-33.i686 curl glib2.i686 glibc.i686 gnupg libcurl.i686 libgcc.i686 libidn.i686libstdc++.i686 libXp.so.6 mailx ncurses ncurses-libs.i686 readline.i686 tar xinetd zlib.i686
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 xinetd libc6:i386 gcc-4.7-base:i386 libgcc1:i386 libglib2.0-0:i386 libffi5:i386 libpcre3:i386 libselinux1:i386 zlib1g:i386
Note: To install 32bit packages on 64bit Debian 7, please run
# dpkg --add-architecture i386
# apt-get update
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
32-bit packages are required for all Amanda Solaris clients. To account for inter-package dependencies, they should be installed in the order as listed. The following dependencies required on both client and server. The package names (i.e., what you specify when installing) are in boldface type. This dependency list is an attempt to document all direct Amanda dependencies and indirect dependencies (Amanda depends on a package that in turn depends on other packages).
SUNW packages can be found as part of Solaris distribution. Zmanda recommends that you install the CSW packages from http://www.opencsw.org/. Some package dependencies are pre-bundled for your convenience and are available at Zmanda network downloads page. Some packages mentioned below have other dependencies. It is easier to install other dependencies by using pkgutil tool available at the http://www.opencsw.org/get-it/pkgutil/
These dependencies are required on both server and client:
The installation order for dependencies for the common packages:
CSWcommon CSWiconv CSWlibidn CSWlibnet CSWsunmath CSWzlib CSWgdbm CSWbdb44 CSWexpat CSWgfile CSWgcc3corert CSWgcc3g++rt CSWggettext CSWgtar CSWmtx CSWreadline CSWfindutils CSWosslrt CSWosslutils CSWossldevel CSWossl CSWsasl CSWoldaprt CSWcurlrt CSWcurl
The following dependencies required only on the server:
The following dependency is required only on the client:
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.