I have a group of amanda servers and clients that are all Ubuntu 14.04 with amanda 3.3.6 installed
from source with ssh config and user amanda.
Now I'm trying to set up a new client that is Ubuntu 16.04. I saw that the aptitude had amanda
3.3.6, common, server, and client packages. So, I thought, hey, that will make things easy.
Not.
So, it seems they built the package with user backup, home directory /var/backups, and shell
/usr/sbin/nologin. There doesn't seem to be any readme or install or configure instructions anywhere
explaining how it has been built and how it has to be set up to function. I had assumed it would be
largely ready to go, with instructions on what configuration remained to be done.
I also haven't been able to find much of anything through google.
Does anyone have any guidance on this? Or should I just rip it out and build from source? Amanda is
one of the few things that I have continued to build from source since I switched from Solaris to
Ubuntu several years ago. All the other major packages get patches and security updates fairly
regularly, so it pays to stick with aptitude.
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