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

Last updated: December 27,2024

1. Install "amanda-server" package

This tutorial shows how to install amanda-server on Kali Linux


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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall amanda-server on Kali Linux:


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

Package: amanda-server
Source: amanda (1:3.5.1-11.1)
Version: 1:3.5.1-11.1+b1
Installed-Size: 1077
Maintainer: Jose M Calhariz
Architecture: amd64
Depends: amanda-common (= 1:3.5.1-11.1+b1), bsd-mailx | mailx, libjson-perl, perl:any, libc6 (>= 2.34), libcurl4 (>= 7.16.2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.75.3)
Suggests: amanda-client (= 1:3.5.1-11.1+b1), cpio | mt-st, gnuplot
Conflicts: amanda
Size: 455656
SHA256: 8221ab0ba1a48a0d201723e5692f9611d7b4b709e37951fb1709cd7cfcbdef65
SHA1: 8c054b0602427b1adf2ca80b616f1231e7fa7ceb
MD5sum: f77d4b3fb23ebb39336b6f29e61bdb3c
Description: Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Server)
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 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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For important notes, see /usr/share/doc/amanda-server/README.Debian.
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Explanation of suggested programs:
- perl is needed for some non essential server utilities
- gnuplot is needed for plotting statistics of backups
- to backup the tape server, you need to install the client too
Description-md5:
Homepage: http://www.amanda.org/
Tag: admin::backup, hardware::storage, implemented-in::c, interface::daemon,
network::server, network::service, role::program, uitoolkit::ncurses,
works-with-format::tar, works-with::archive
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/amanda/amanda-server_3.5.1-11.1+b1_amd64.deb