How to Install and Uninstall amanda-server Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 15,2024

1. Install "amanda-server" package

This tutorial shows how to install amanda-server on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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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 guidance below to uninstall amanda-server on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: amanda-server
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:3.5.1-5
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Source: amanda
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Jose M Calhariz
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 893
Depends: amanda-common (= 1:3.5.1-5), bsd-mailx | mailx, libjson-perl, perl:any, libc6 (>= 2.14), libcurl4 (>= 7.16.2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8)
Suggests: amanda-client (= 1:3.5.1-5), cpio | mt-st, gnuplot
Conflicts: amanda
Filename: pool/universe/a/amanda/amanda-server_3.5.1-5_amd64.deb
Size: 229804
MD5sum: 1ed201b00379f26387903541c739ff5a
SHA1: 5246530ed0991e9a18f701768a48c137f5e06f4f
SHA256: 128758989dfc4e99226dcb06c5bb7a676c5f5af7a160a5bba1343c042d3298dd
SHA512: db1329e7ef9a7b63e9c253cf36ade9009ca43fd04806ec8f19f4af4dd9c2779e17cd6f77a06d36a680213b714b31aa0c924a6fd4e68f1355627c2ca8dabd92a9
Homepage: http://www.amanda.org/
Description-en: 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: 7a44af7cb005595215636c1ed7a211fa