Here I am, I have been very busy with work the last 2 weeks. I have been testing my code and am getting ready to release it this week. Please send email if you are interested in testing. You will need Activestate perl installed on your system before you get going. Currently the code supports backing up files in TAR format only (I am looking for help on getting native NT backup to work with Amanda), also currently only FULL backup and server side compression are supported.
Jim > 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 > > > > > > > > > >
