
Part I. Installation
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Part I. Installation



Initial Installation

This section of the Amanda-docs contains general info on how to install Amanda
and how to configure its basic parts. Please read this!
Table of Contents


  1._Amanda_2.5.0_-_System-Specific_Installation_Notes


        Solaris_2.6

        Solaris

        Trusted_Solaris

        SunOS_4.x

        Ultrix

        HP/UX

        Linux

        Digital_Unix_4

        Sinix_5.43_(Reliant_Unix)

        IRIX_(all)

        IRIX_6

        IRIX_6.5.x

        SCO

        FreeBSD_3.0

        FreeBSD_4.9

        FreeBSD_5.1

        AIX

        Microsoft_Windows

        Mac_OS_X


  2._Amanda_Installation_Notes


        Before_doing_anything

        Compiling_the_Amanda_sources

        Setting_up_your_Amanda_Configuration


              Setting_up_the_Tape_Server_Host

              Set_up_the_Backup_Client_Hosts



  3._Excluding


        Introduction

        Please_Read

        Before_We_Begin

        Choosing_an_exclude_mechanism


              Exclude_Mechanisms


        Expression

        Wildcard_Expansion

        Troubleshooting


              Broken_gnutar?

              The_ps_command_is_your_friend.



  4._Indexing_with_Amanda


        Database_Format

        Database_Browsing

        File_Extraction

        Protocol_Between_amindexd_and_amrecover

        Installation_Notes

        Permissions

        Changes_from_amindex-1.0

        Changes_from_amindex-0.3

        Changes_from_amindex-0.2

        Changes_from_amindex-0.ithout-amandahosts) so that the dumpuser is allowed in
  from the server host. Only canonical host names will be accepted in
  .amandahosts, and usernames must be present in every line, because this is
  safer.
* Set up your raw disk devices so that the dumpuser can read them, and /etc/
  dumpdates so that the dumpuser can write to it. Normally this is done by
  making the disk devices readable by (and dumpdates read/writable by) group
  `operator', and putting the dumpuser into that group.