Hi, > Actually in my experience, you are more likely to see development to > support other OSes OUTSIDE of M$. What might be an interesting idea > is if there is a freeware/opensource backup/restore program for > Windows that could be integrated into the AmandaClient...
As a long time amanda user I can pretty well remember that this requirement has been discussed quite often in the past... If you have a look at the sourceforge-project "Amanda Backup Win32 Clients" (which has been abbandonned since 2001), there you can find a small program called "nttar", which nicely backs up (and restores) nt acls. I recently tested it - looked quite good. I think it should not be too hard to code a wrapper around this (or to integrate some changes into the source) to make it react like gnutar - and then to integrate it into amanda. Regards, Christopher (who would love to see amanda one day back up windoze boxes natively)
