Re: Backup Best Practice tutorial

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appears that prebuilt debs are outdated b4 I get a good start.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#
===========================
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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