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Basically, it appears that the executables were moved after the upgrade -
I'm doing this from memory, but I think amandad no longer is on my machine
when it used to be in /etc/amanda directory.

Has anyone else heard about this? I've been running amanda for about 2
1/2 years. What's my next steps? I would be willing to trash my current
backups if I started up with the Ubuntu repositories or should I just go
ahead and do the steps required with an upgrade. I originally installed it
by hand - not using the repositories.

Thanks,

Matt Burkhardt

On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:08:23 -0700
<mlb < at > imparisystems.com> wrote:

Basically, it appears that the executables were moved after the
upgrade - I'm doing this from memory, but I think amandad no longer
is on my machine when it used to be in /etc/amanda directory.

amandad as installed from the Ubuntu 10.10 repo should be
in /usr/lib/amanda/. Similarly for 8.04.

/etc/amanda is not a good place for an executable. The Filesystem
Hierarchy Standard (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/) reserves /etc for
"Host-specific system configuration". It specifies that "No binaries
may be located under /etc."
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#ETCHOSTSPECIFICSYSTEMCONFIGURATION



Has anyone else heard about this?

I have not seen it, nor do I recall anyone mentioning it here before.

I've been running amanda for about
2 1/2 years. What's my next steps? I would be willing to trash my
current backups if I started up with the Ubuntu repositories or
should I just go ahead and do the steps required with an upgrade. I
originally installed it by hand - not using the repositories.

I've used the repos on Ubuntu. Unless there is a feature you need
that is not in the repo version, I'd go with that. The installer does a
lot of the grunt setup work for you. Things are different from the
zmanda packages: the user name and group, some file locations. But it
works. I make two changes from the repo: the shell specified
in /etc/passwd (so I can "su - backup" and still have bash), and change
to bsdtcp auth (or even ssh).
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Configure_bsdtcp_authentication

If you prefer a more recent version, note that Ubuntu 10.10 has amanda
3.1.0-1. I've not seen any conflicts between that version and the
2.5.2p1 versions on older Ubuntus.



Thanks,

Matt Burkhardt




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On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 08:58:08AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:08:23 -0700
<mlb < at > imparisystems.com> wrote:

Basically, it appears that the executables were moved after the
upgrade - I'm doing this from memory, but I think amandad no longer
is on my machine when it used to be in /etc/amanda directory.

amandad as installed from the Ubuntu 10.10 repo should be
in /usr/lib/amanda/. Similarly for 8.04.


All of my amanda installations (3.1 & 3.2) are pre-builts from
OpenCSW for Solaris or Zmanda for Ubuntu and Fedora. All have
amandad under "libexec/amanda".

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On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:50:54 -0500, Jon LaBadie <jon < at > jgcomp.com> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 08:58:08AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:08:23 -0700
<mlb < at > imparisystems.com> wrote:

Basically, it appears that the executables were moved after the
upgrade - I'm doing this from memory, but I think amandad no longer
is on my machine when it used to be in /etc/amanda directory.

amandad as installed from the Ubuntu 10.10 repo should be
in /usr/lib/amanda/. Similarly for 8.04.


All of my amanda installations (3.1 & 3.2) are pre-builts from
OpenCSW for Solaris or Zmanda for Ubuntu and Fedora. All have
amandad under "libexec/amanda".

I ended up just downloading the Debian binary from Amanda and running dpkg
on it. Apparently the Ubuntu packages are not compiled with Amazon S3
support.

I'm finding that some of my directives in the amanda.conf file have been
deprecated and I'm working through some access errors but wanted to thank
everyone for their help!

Matt Burkhardt
mlb < at > imparisystems.com
http://www.imparisystems.com