Perhaps I misunderstand what you're saying, but Buster already has 3.5.1. https://packages.debian.org/buster/amanda-server
I am using that exact package in a daily VTL config, with an amvault of all the full DLEs once a month to LTO (yes, almost as obsolete as the Poweredge 2800 this is running on). On 2019-06-10 2:05 p.m., Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > Hi Diego, > > * Diego Zuccato <[email protected]> [20190610 13:44]: >> On 10/06/19 19:23, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: >> >>> This would be a new installation, not an upgrade, and on Debian/Jessie. >>> I can always help debug! >> Jessie, IIRC, is already EOL and will not receive further updates: is it >> wise to use it for a new install? > Due to other software restrictions/constraints, I'm stuck at Jessie for this > host :( most notably the enterprise version of zmanda/betsol to do NDMP > backups > of an Dell/EMC/Isilon cluster. > > However I certainly can test the Debian packaged version on buster since I > have > a few VMs running it. My goal is to eventually use a new, bare metal server to > backup to disk with vaulting. This is really what I want to test. > > thanks, > jf > >> amanda-3.5.1 is already packaged in Buster (testing), so you could have >> a Stretch base with amanda from Buster -- at least you'll have a >> supported distro. >> >> Too bad I can't make amsamba work in such a setup, so no backup of Samba >> shares :( >> >> -- >> Diego Zuccato >> Servizi Informatici >> Dip. di Fisica e Astronomia (DIFA) - Università di Bologna >> V.le Berti-Pichat 6/2 - 40127 Bologna - Italy >> tel.: +39 051 20 95786 >> mail: [email protected]
