These instructions were tested with amanda-3.2.0 on Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit).

Installation

Install the Cygwin packages required to build the Amanda client.

• gcc-core
• gcc-g++
• libiconv
• make
• perl
• libglib2.0-devel
• pkg-config
• openssh (for SSH auth)

Create the Amanda account. Add the account to the Administrators group. Add the Amanda account to /etc/passwd.

Build Amanda

./configure \
    --prefix=/usr/local \
    --with-user=amanda_backup \
    --with-group=Administrators \
    --with-ssh-security \
    --without-server \
    --without-force-uid \
    --without-ndmp
make
make install

Finish the installation.

mkdir -p /usr/local/var/amanda
touch /usr/local/var/amanda/amandates
mkdir /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists

mkdir ~amanda_backup
chown amanda_backup: ~amanda_backup

SSH Authentication

mkdir ~amanda_backup/.ssh
touch ~amanda_backup/.ssh/authorized_keys
chown -R amanda_backup:Administrators ~amanda_backup/.ssh

Add the Amanda server's SSH key to ~amanda_backup/.ssh/authorized_keys.