On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
> Huh? What do you mean you're backup up to a disk? Amanda backs up
> to tape. And why would you send all that traffic through the worst file
> protocol in existence, SMB, to one of the worst OS's in existence, NT?
There doesn't seem to be any good filesharing protocols =(
> >... I am not sure as to whether I need to install Amanda on
> >the NT server (or my administrator should) or, once I have mounted the
> >network disk, my computer becomes the amanda server.
>
> Amanda only runs on Unix, not NT. The computer with the tape drive is
> your Amanda server, and it has to be Unix.
I'm not sure if this has been kicked around yet, but:
Has anyone tried to get amandad to run on NT with the Cygnus stuff? Is
there some point which is impossible? I think even tar is available =)
--
Windows Task Scheduler is a really nifty tool and should probably
be disabled and removed if at all possible.
-- Securityportal.com Jeff pt IX
