amoldrecover command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix amoldrecover command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

amoldrecover: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: amoldrecover: command not found

Solutions to amoldrecover: command not found

How To Fix amoldrecover: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu amoldrecover is provided by amanda-client package.

amanda-client is:

Amanda is a backup system designed to archive many computers on a network to a single large-capacity tape drive. This package is suitable for large amounts of data to backup. For smaller solutions take a look at afbackup, tob, …

Features:

  • will back up multiple machines in parallel to a holding disk, blasting finished dumps one by one to tape as fast as they can be can written to tape. For example, a ~2 Gb 8mm tape on a ~240K/s interface to a host with a large holding disk can be filled by Amanda in under 4 hours.
  • built on top of standard backup software: Unix dump/restore, and later GNU Tar and others.
  • does simple tape management: will not overwrite the wrong tape.
  • supports tape changers via a generic interface. Easily customizable to any type of tape carousel, robot, or stacker that can be controlled via the unix command line.
  • for a restore, tells you what tapes you need, and finds the proper backup image on the tape for you.
  • recovers gracefully from errors, including down or hung machines.
  • reports results, including all errors in detail, in email to operators.
  • will dynamically adjust backup schedule to keep within constraints: no more juggling by hand when adding disks and computers to network.
  • includes a pre-run checker program, that conducts sanity checks on both the tape server host and all the client hosts (in parallel), and will send an e-mail report of any problems that could cause the backups to fail.
  • can compress dumps before sending or after sending over the net, with either compress or gzip.
  • can optionally synchronize with external backups, for those large timesharing computers where you want to do full dumps when the system is down in single-user mode (since BSD dump is not reliable on active filesystems): Amanda will still do your daily dumps.
  • lots of other options; Amanda is very configurable.

THIS PACKAGE RELIES ON A RUNNING AMANDA SERVER IN YOUR NETWORK.

For important notes, see /usr/share/doc/amanda-client/README.Debian.

Explanation of suggested programs:

  • gnuplot is needed for plotting statistics of backups

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install amanda-client

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install amanda-client.

sudo apt -y install amanda-client

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install amanda-client

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix amoldrecover command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.