> Any suggestions? - I know its poossible through samba, cygwin etc, but > in people's experience, what's the best way of backing up Windows?
I do archive clients with samba. It mostly work. I never tried any real restore though. I know it does not preserve the ACL, but that is a minor issue as people are supposed to put their personnal files on the samba server, not on the local disk (at least for the machine that have multiple users). I never tried cygwin. If you are familiar with cygwin, that gievn it is a server (a machine with a specific configuration, opposed to a client where you have 50 or 100 machines with similar configuration) it would be worth taking the time to install cygwin client: you get full functionnality of amanda, it uses a portable gzip and tar format... Bests, Olivier
