On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:08:23 -0700 <[email protected]> wrote: > Basically, it appears that the executables were moved after the > upgrade - I'm doing this from memory, but I think amandad no longer > is on my machine when it used to be in /etc/amanda directory.
amandad as installed from the Ubuntu 10.10 repo should be in /usr/lib/amanda/. Similarly for 8.04. /etc/amanda is not a good place for an executable. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/) reserves /etc for "Host-specific system configuration". It specifies that "No binaries may be located under /etc." http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#ETCHOSTSPECIFICSYSTEMCONFIGURATION > > Has anyone else heard about this? I have not seen it, nor do I recall anyone mentioning it here before. > I've been running amanda for about > 2 1/2 years. What's my next steps? I would be willing to trash my > current backups if I started up with the Ubuntu repositories or > should I just go ahead and do the steps required with an upgrade. I > originally installed it by hand - not using the repositories. I've used the repos on Ubuntu. Unless there is a feature you need that is not in the repo version, I'd go with that. The installer does a lot of the grunt setup work for you. Things are different from the zmanda packages: the user name and group, some file locations. But it works. I make two changes from the repo: the shell specified in /etc/passwd (so I can "su - backup" and still have bash), and change to bsdtcp auth (or even ssh). http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Configure_bsdtcp_authentication If you prefer a more recent version, note that Ubuntu 10.10 has amanda 3.1.0-1. I've not seen any conflicts between that version and the 2.5.2p1 versions on older Ubuntus. > > Thanks, > > Matt Burkhardt > -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
