There's amanda-win32 at sourceforge. I'm just in testing phase right now, takes a little work to put the pieces together, and I still need to figure out how to automate an install as much as possible. But has a small footprint and seems efficient.
I apologize if this message does not come through clean. Forced to use Notes now . . . . -- toby bluhm philips medical systems, mr development, cleveland, ohio [EMAIL PROTECTED] 440-483-5323 Brian Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >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
