Brian, Doug Kingston recently posted a patch (on amanda-hackers) to 2.4.3b4 to make it run under Cygwin. I'm trying to get it to work here on my test server, and once I learned about 'set CYGWIN=nontsec', it configured, but I'm having a library problem during make. If it works, I think it will be a very popular solution, as Doug's changes should be able to be merged into the main source and enabled with a configure option or detect.
Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Kennedy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 11:15 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Backing up Windows shares... > > > Is Jim Buttafuco still out there? He said he had rewritten > the amanda > client in perl to run on windows machines and wanted to > release it a few > weeks ago. I got real excited and then he dissapeared. > > If that's fallen through, does anyone have suggestions on backing up > windows machines that has nothing to do with samba? Having > engineers as > users is troublesome, they know enough to THINK they know > what they're > doing. Commonly they change permisions so my backup user > cannot access > the files to back them up, so I need something that can run > as a client > process on the machine as local Administrator to bypass such nonsense. > > Steve Bertrand wrote: > > >I have always had problems backing up windows shares with > amanda, so I > >just continued to use Veritas for them, until I found an > easy way to do > >it. If you mount the windows share into the Unix file > system, it seems > >to be far more reliable, as well as faster and easier to do: > > > ># mount -t smbfs //winserver/share /mnt/mntpoint > > > >then add an entry for the mntpoint in amanda's disklist entry. > > > >Hope this makes someones life easier! > > > >Steve Bertrand > > > > > > > > > > > >
