Writting a new tapeio module sounds like a good solution if I was able to pour a week or two of effort into the problem. Unfortunately I don't have that sort of time. I have never made extensive use of Cygwin although I know what it is. I have tended to stay on unix and coded far more OO perl and Java than C++. I know enough C++ to be dangerous.
What I need is something I can install that is decently documented, has lots of momentum, and doesn't take more than a day or two to get going. Writting a few quick scripts is fine. More people than myself will need to be able to maintain what is installed. >Is there any way to run an amanda server on one of the >Linux boxes but use the tape drive(s) on the Windows >NT server? I am not opposed to writting a days worth >of code to accomplish this task. One possibility would be to use 2.4.3bX and write a new tapeio module (hopefully not too difficult) to use the "rmt" (remote mag tape) protocol. It has a number of problems but it might get the job done. Then you'd need to be able to fire up the rmt client on the NT box in some way and get it to talk to the tape drive. Do you know what Cygwin is (sorry if that's too basic a question)? Can the drive be accessed from Cygwin? Where I'm headed is "rmt" (the client) comes with GNU tar, so that side of the code might already be done, or close to it. And I think there is an inetd service that might be able to be coerced into running rmt on demand. John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
