The name of this post may be a little misleading. Once I get it up and running on my OS X and FreeBSD machines, I plan to do little beyond letting it run. If you are using this howto to help you in installing and configuring Amanda, please be sure to also take a look at the Amanda website hosted by SourceForge and the AmandaMacOSXCompileNotes at Brandeis.edu. There is a part to the OSX Compile Notes that will completely hose your password file, however, if you are running OS X Panther Server (10.3.x). Be very cautious in following the add user portions of the OSX Compile Notes - in fact, I would recommend not following them at all.
This HOWTO was written based upon my installation procedure with a Pentium 150 with a 40GB hard drive and a DLT IIIXT SCSI tape drive. I started with a vanilla installation of FreeBSD 4.9.
Chapter 1 - Install Amanda
