Care to share what you went through? I remember there's an exe you have to run to turn any program into a service (anyserv.exe?) as I've had to do it for a perl script before.
Would be nice to get it all under the same backup system. On 9/12/02 2:35 AM, "JC Simonetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:02:09 -0400 (EDT) > Samuel Nicolary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Galen Johnson wrote: >> >>> Hello gang, >>> >>> A while back I had sent a request regarding backing up windows machines >>> without having to deal with samba. Someone had responded with the win32 >>> Amanda client on sourceforge. I have looked it up and it seems like >>> it'll do what I want. However, it hasn't been touched in 18 months. Is >>> anyone currently using this with Amanda 2.4.3.b4? >> >> I downloaded this package but have been unable to get it to work - anyone >> using it successfully? > > > Well... I was a bit tricky but I managed to make this work with Amanda 2.4.3b2 > and W2K clients (not NT4). The major problems in fact were to transform this > slight piece of code into a W2K Service (to make it work even if you have not > an Administrator account always opened) (quite a bit tricky to to find > information at Microsoft's). Another problem was due to the Windows flag > "archive" that seems to be read by Amanda exactly like the Unix "executable" > flag. > Now I am backuping some W2K servers, in production. Everything goes well :) > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Jean-Christian SIMONETTI email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SysAdmin Wanadoo Portails phone: (+33)493004911 > Sophia Antipolis, France > ------------------------------------------------------