I am running Amanda on a Sun Soalris 10 x86 server.
I recently upgraded from Amanda-2.6.1p2 to Amanda-3.1.1.
During the move I changed to the following:
1) Moved from auth=bsd to auth=badtcp.
2) Moved from username=amanda to username=amandabackup
3) Moved to using chg-robot changer.
I found my configure setting that I used for compiling Amanda-2.6.1p2 worked
with amanda-3.1.1 without any compile or install problems.
Once compiled and installed I found that amcheck was a big help. Amcheck 3.1.1
seems to do more checking that in 2.6 and spotted some file permissions and
locations problem.
Where I had the most problem is setting up Solaris Service Management Facility
converting from the upd to tcp. I finally went back and removed the amanda
service, ran inetconv against a new inetd.conf with "amanda stream tcp
nowait amandabackup /local/amanda/amanda/libexec/amanda/amandad amandad
-auth=bsdtcp amdump amindexd amidxtaped" and when I enabled this new service
things started working.
I was also having a problem with getting the holdingdisk working.
It seemed that I had
define holdingdisk xxx {
xxx
xxx
}
When I should have had
holdingdisk xxx {
yyy
zzz
}
Most of my other problem were just "doh!" moments.
Most of my clients are running amanda-2.5 that and started working with 3.1.1
by just changing the .amandahosts file.
My next challenge is to get amanda window client working on my Win2003 server.
By moving to Amanda-3.1.1 and making the above 3 changes to the new server, I
believe it will be rather easy to upgrade to newer versions.
All in all I am glad I made the upgrade and the pain level was about what I
expected, low. What makes it easy is the great and fast response from the
amanda-users group. Sometime you just cannot see the forests for the trees and
having other eyes look at a problem really helps.
Congratulations to the Amanda team for a great product and thanks to the
amanda-users mailing list.
Robert
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Robert P. McGraw, Jr.
Manager, Computer System EMAIL: rmcg...@purdue.edu
Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807
Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055
150 N. University Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067
