On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 10:41:57AM -0500, Gordon J. Mills III wrote: > > > .... How much trouble is it to install amanda on cygwin? > > > > > > > The real problem (as I see it) is support, your support time that is. > > With smbclient nothing needs be done/added to the windows system. > > With cygwin, you have to add and maintain cygwin on 'each' > > windows client. > > Then on 'each' windows client also add and maintain amanda. > > > > If you need it, you need it though. > > > > For one or two windows systems not too bad, for fifty or a > > hundred that don't use cygwin otherwise? > > bleech! > > > > Thanks Jon. That is a good point. I'm not sure what would be the best answer > for Windows clients...I guess it depends on each environment. On TSM I had > to install client software on each machine. Of course it wasn't very hard > since it was a win32 client. Took about 5 min. > > If it could all be done from the amanda machine using smbclient, that would > sure be easy. It would put a much greater load on the backup server, but it > would not require anything on the win client. For that to work though, > smbclient would need to support windows ACL's and include/exclude lists. The > latter is definitely do-able. I have no idea about adding ACL support... >
Its been a few years since I looked at smbclient and its exclude capability. One difference is the lack of a way to supply a file of exclude patterns. They all were supplied as command line args. Currently amanda collects all the patterns for a DLE (whether from an exclude list or exclude file) and creates a single file for gnutar to use. Back then I wrote shell wrapper for smbclient that reversed the procedure, taking the one file provided and expanded it into smbclient syntax. It had to consider quoting and special characters as I recall. Seemed to do the job the way I wanted, but smbclient's exclude features were broken at that time, even for a single pattern which amanda was trying to support so I stopped persuing it. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
