I looked at that and gave up when it looked like it couldn't do estimates. It also hadn't been updated in a while, and I'm looking forward to amanda 2.5.0.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 12:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Backing up Windows shares... > > > 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 > >
