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Obsolete Releases => SME 7.x Contribs => Topic started by: jfarschman on June 05, 2009, 11:50:39 PM

Title: SOLVED - SME Server as an Amanda Client
Post by: jfarschman on June 05, 2009, 11:50:39 PM
This describes, briefly, how to install the amanda-backup-client on the SME server.   for those of you who do not know Amanda is a very nice backup system and while I am only loading the client here (so that I can backup elements of my SME server) one could make the SME into a backup server as well.  I have not done this, but email me if you need a hand.  I have some pretty good notes.

In general, follow the instructions at AMANDA WEBSITE -   I was able to use the RHEL4 RPM.... then I only had to do two things differently.

1.  Installing DaemonTools  This is the correct code.

<code>
exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid amandabackup \
  /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -DHRl0 0 10080 \
  /usr/local/libexec/amandad amindexd amidxtaped noop selfcheck sendsize sendbackup -auth=bsdtcp >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
</code>

You can see in the original instructions http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Quick_start#Configuring_daemontools_on_the_client that there is an extraneous -q 0 that keeps things from starting up.

2.  You need to manually create an amandabackup user.

3.  Open the firewall
<code>
config set amanda service access public status enabled TCPPort 10080
signal-event remoteaccess-update</code>


Enjoy and feel free to contact me if you have questions.

jay@hitechsavvy.com