I'm needing to backup a Windows 2K server that has a large 46+GB shared 'D$' drive. This disk contains an application that has many little files and even under the best circumstances with purchased backup software it will take 30 to 36 hours to backup. I've managed to get this to 21 hours using a combination of Amanda-2.4.4, Samba-2.2.8a, and gnutar-1.13.25 to back up this beast. However, this is still not good enough (for management, of course). In searching the amanda-users and amanda-hackers archives, I found some mention of modifing sendsize.c to use calcsize for estimations. I don't really want to do this as it only effects the estimation phase for planner. I was hoping to use include or exclude options of gnutar but samba will not really play well in this game. I tried to divide the large shared drive into directories using the include option in both the disklist and in the dumptypes. Samba complains about this and gives error messages and quits. Then I tried using ex! clude. Samba will be ok with this option as long as you just exclude only one file or directory. This is not a good option either as I have many files or patterns I want to exclude (i.e.,./pagefile.sys, */*.tmp, or */*.zip). So, I thought of installing cygwin on this W2K machine with amanda client and trying this configuration. I am working through this implementation currently and am having some problems (I did get the host server to talk to the w2k, cygwin, amanda client machine, but had to stop at this point and got pulled off onto another project). My thought was I could at least bypass Samba and just use gnutar to backup the W2K client machine using exclude lists or files. Has anyone done this or something similar? If so, can you give me some advice on the best way to accomplish my objective - backing up large W2K shared partitions in the shortest time possible. Thanks in advance. Bob...
-- Robert Zahn UNIX Systems Administrator Oklahoma City Community College 7777 S. May Avenue Oklahoma City, Ok 73159 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
