How to Install and Uninstall amanda-client Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: May 09,2024

1. Install "amanda-client" package

This tutorial shows how to install amanda-client on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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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

This is a short guide on how to uninstall amanda-client on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: amanda-client
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:3.5.1-5ubuntu1
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: 912
Depends: amanda-common (= 1:3.5.1-5ubuntu1), libxml-simple-perl, perl:any, libc6 (>= 2.15), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8), libreadline8 (>= 6.0)
Suggests: dump, gnuplot, smbclient
Conflicts: amanda
Filename: pool/universe/a/amanda/amanda-client_3.5.1-5ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 213148
MD5sum: a7a8f7b7928c79c4acd55438dfe421ff
SHA1: 5cbbb32ac8b3c394ac910521df233fb722a48476
SHA256: bec8cc9b9f19bc2f04a502ea227384cebf65908cb523ac192b422659fa9c427a
SHA512: c796ad712a8f10b9a9128268469ba9c7ae0d6a306c973d7d2c8f718e1fd79238a1dab1cf56ba90665cd0c6b9585b4bc280b3cf632e8012f02f2c6b0690924984
Homepage: http://www.amanda.org/
Description-en: 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
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