On 4 Mar 2003 at 10:54am, philo vivero wrote > I've used Amanda before in a Unix-only shop, but now am interested in > backing up Win32 clients. > > I see Amanda.Org still seems to hold the official line of "use smbclient > to backup Win32 clients," but there's a port of Amanda client to Win32 > at http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda-win32 which appears to have > about 5-15 downloads daily for the last week or two. > > What can you tell me about the Win32 port of Amanda client software? Is > it appropriate for backing up a heterogenous Win'95, Win'98, Win'XP, > Win'2K network? What are the 'gotchas'?
I can't tell you much, but I can tell that the official 2.4.4 version supports the cygwin environment. There have been a number of messages on this recently -- search the archives. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
