How To:Migrate from older amanda versions

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Overview

Sometimes you have to upgrade your backupserver.

This article describes, how to migrate from an old amanda version (amanda-server-2.4.4p2-3) to the current version (amanda-server-2.5.1p3).

Backup jobs

The default backup job is e.g. DailySet1.

Amanda store the configuration data for this backup job in /etc/amanda/DailySet1.

The Amanda database data for this backup job is stored in /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1.

Some configuration details are although stored in /etc/amanda/amanda.conf

Startpoint

After 3 years of using amanda 2.4 made an systemupdate.

I installed amanda 2.5 on an new server with the old DLT-tapedrive and tested the backup with a small backupjob.

Tranfering data

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