JC Simonetti said: > > You have 3 ways to backup Windows by Amanda: > 1. Win32 client: good luck, since its development has been > stopped 2 years ago > 2. Windows shares and Samba client on your Amanda box: not so > good because of the rights of the files that are bot backed up > 3. Amanda standard client installed under Cygwin on your Windows > box: OK, but you have to install Cygwin first; and I'm not sure I > like this solution, just because I have to install a "Linux > emulator" on a Windows box (can you imagine yourself installing a > Wine on your Linux just to make some administrative operations? I don't). > > In my case, I have adopted 3 different solutions, depending on > the boxes I back up: > 1. Samba > 2. Cygwin > 3. backup Windows computers with official Windows backup solutions > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jean-Christian SIMONETTI email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SysAdmin Wanadoo Portails phone: (+33)493004911 > Sophia Antipolis, France > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >
I have taken to using NTBackup on my Win2K boxes to back up to a samba share on a box a set up for the purpose. Stuff a couple of big IDE disks in an old Dell desktop and you've got a very cheap NAS. Too bad NTBackup doesn't do software compression, however. Josh
