On 8/11/25 18:03, Lou Hafer wrote:
Gene,
Amanda might not have changed as much as you think, depending on
the version you used to run. The 3.5.4 release (tag-community-3.5.4 up
on github) hasn't had any commits since July 2023.
Lou
Now, amanda has been changed considerably since I ran it from 1999
till 2 new 2T seagates about 2 weeks old signed off in the middle of
the night 3 years ago. That prompted a wholesale upgrading of my
whole wintel computer cnc farm to SSD's in nearly everything. Where
do I find a "first light" tutorial to get amanda started on good
terms with the world? I have done nothing but install the 3.5.4 debs
for all 3 pkgs. So start me from there...
I have much newer debs here and did have on older hd's, stuff up to
amanda 4 something. All from b4 it was sold to BETSOL. But 99% is built
to run on wintel hdwe, not arm64, so I'm limited to debians screwed up
arm64 version of 3.5.1. The ssh instructions in the README-debian seem
to be for some other universe. And that's just for the 1st page. So it
appears that prebuilt debs are outdated b4 I get a good start. I know
rsync works on arm64's so if this cannot be used, that would be my next
choice but wrapping it up into a weekly format seems like a much less
efficient method. And I probably don't have enough time left to rewrite
something that works like amanda. That and tarballs hold history, rsync
doesn't.
Now I've mounted the card here and commented all the odd stuff back out
of /etc/fstab, w/o restoring the boot.
looking in the /home/amanda dir here, I see:
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root@coyote:/home/amanda# ls
amanda
amanda-3.5.1
amanda-3.5.1.tar.gz
'amanda-backup-client_3.6.0.pre3+1-jnkn.branch.2fa9fd790Debian11_amd64(1).deb'
amanda-backup-client_3.6.0.pre3+1-jnkn.branch.2fa9fd790Debian11_amd64.deb
'amanda-backup-client-tests_3.6.0.pre3+1-jnkn.branch.2fa9fd790Debian11_amd64(1).deb'
amanda-backup-client-tests_3.6.0.pre3+1-jnkn.branch.2fa9fd790Debian11_amd64.deb
'amanda-backup-server_3.6.0.pre3+1-jnkn.branch.2fa9fd790Debian11_amd64(1).deb'
amanda-backup-server_3.6.0.pre3+1-jnkn.branch.2fa9fd790Debian11_amd64.deb
'amanda-backup-server-tests_3.6.0.pre3+1-jnkn.branch.2fa9fd790Debian11_amd64(1).deb'
amanda-backup-server-tests_3.6.0.pre3+1-jnkn.branch.2fa9fd790Debian11_amd64.deb
amandahosts
Desktop
fix-3hole.ps
gh.cf
iceauth.out
log
machine-update
Mail
tmp
root@coyote:/home/amanda#
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but as can be seen, all are built for amd64, and this arm64. And these
3.5.1 deb's came from the debian bookworm for arm64 repo's. The armbian
image is based on debian bookworm arm64 repos as installed by synaptic.
ATM I'm as confused as you after you read my ramblings.
Take care of #1.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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