Notes on making amanda-client work on a Debian system

To get indexing (or specifically amrecover) to work right two things need
to be done:

1. If you're using tcpd, make sure to edit the server's /etc/hosts.allow and 
   allow all client machines into the daemon amandad

2. Edit the server(s) ~backup/.amandahosts and add an entry like:
   "<client_hostname>   root"

As always: for more complex setups consult the manpages and available
documentation in /usr/share/doc/amanda-common ;-) 

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To make a client work using SSH transport do:

  Copy the contents of id_rsa_amanda.pub from backup@amanda-server into ~backup/.ssh/authorized_keys

mkdir -p ~backup/.ssh
echo -n 'from="XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX",no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,command="/usr/lib/amanda/amandad -auth=ssh amdump" ' >> ~backup/.ssh/authorized_keys
cat id_rsa_amanda.pub >> ~backup/.ssh/authorized_keys

  Edit the autorized_keys to replace XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX with the IP of
  the backup server.

  Change the shell of the backup account to /bin/bash.

chsh -s /bin/bash backup

  Test in the server that "amcheck $CONF -c $CLIENT" works



 -- Jose M Calhariz <calhariz@debian.org>, Fri, 14 Jul 2017 11:53:08 +0100