Concerning you and Uwe Beger, could you please tell me the approximative size of your Windows backups per day? Do you back up a production site, workstations?
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:33:35 -0500 "Josh Welch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jean-Christian SIMONETTI email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SysAdmin Wanadoo Portails phone: (+33)493004911 Sophia Antipolis, France -----------------------------------------------------------------------