How to Install and Uninstall amanda-client Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 15,2024

1. Install "amanda-client" package

This is a short guide on how to install amanda-client on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                amanda-client
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "amanda-client" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall amanda-client on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                amanda-client
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the amanda-client package on Kali Linux

Package: amanda-client
Source: amanda (1:3.5.1-11.1)
Version: 1:3.5.1-11.1+b1
Installed-Size: 1092
Maintainer: Jose M Calhariz
Architecture: amd64
Depends: amanda-common (= 1:3.5.1-11.1+b1), libxml-simple-perl, perl:any, libc6 (>= 2.34), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.75.3), libreadline8 (>= 6.0)
Suggests: dump, gnuplot, smbclient
Conflicts: amanda
Size: 433668
SHA256: 53c62de9b27231e1c15e78c3a37727d2f6e26156d563cba08c26692c5fcd8f31
SHA1: e76cd992932a3a7a0991ffa3e580e5da5de7aa29
MD5sum: e0404d4e6d958b826f9e8ca34e608258
Description: Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Client)
Amanda is a backup system designed to archive many computers on a
network to a single large-capacity tape drive. This package is
suitable for large amounts of data to backup. For smaller solutions
take a look at afbackup, tob, ...
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Features:
* will back up multiple machines in parallel to a holding disk, blasting
finished dumps one by one to tape as fast as they can be can written to
tape. For example, a ~2 Gb 8mm tape on a ~240K/s interface to a host
with a large holding disk can be filled by Amanda in under 4 hours.
* built on top of standard backup software: Unix dump/restore, and
later GNU Tar and others.
* does simple tape management: will not overwrite the wrong tape.
* supports tape changers via a generic interface. Easily customizable
to any type of tape carousel, robot, or stacker that can be controlled
via the unix command line.
* for a restore, tells you what tapes you need, and finds the proper
backup image on the tape for you.
* recovers gracefully from errors, including down or hung machines.
* reports results, including all errors in detail, in email to operators.
* will dynamically adjust backup schedule to keep within constraints:
no more juggling by hand when adding disks and computers to network.
* includes a pre-run checker program, that conducts sanity checks on both
the tape server host and all the client hosts (in parallel), and will
send an e-mail report of any problems that could cause the backups to
fail.
* can compress dumps before sending or after sending over the net, with
either compress or gzip.
* can optionally synchronize with external backups, for those large
timesharing computers where you want to do full dumps when the system
is down in single-user mode (since BSD dump is not reliable on active
filesystems): Amanda will still do your daily dumps.
* lots of other options; Amanda is very configurable.
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THIS PACKAGE RELIES ON A RUNNING AMANDA SERVER IN YOUR NETWORK.
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For important notes, see /usr/share/doc/amanda-client/README.Debian.
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Explanation of suggested programs:
- gnuplot is needed for plotting statistics of backups
Description-md5:
Homepage: http://www.amanda.org/
Tag: admin::backup, hardware::storage, implemented-in::c,
interface::text-mode, network::client, network::service, role::program,
uitoolkit::ncurses, use::storing, works-with-format::tar,
works-with::archive
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/amanda/amanda-client_3.5.1-11.1+b1_amd64.deb