On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 14:11:15 -0400
Jean-Francois Malouin <[email protected]> wrote:

> The server is running 3.3.5.
> I usually prefer compiling clients and servers as I never liked to
> way amanda was packaged for Debian. For instance (it might have
> changed) the amanda user is 'backup' and there is already a user
> called backup and it used for other purposes that doing tape of vdisk
> backups. However they share the same home, /var/backups, etc.  

I certainly agree with your assessment of the debian package, and it
has not changed on stretch. Sigh. Fixing that is on my to-do list, but
rather low. Anyone else want to take that on?

And I appreciate your desire to have consistent installations across
all your machines. 

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