Hi all, I'm using Amanda to backup some WinXP/2000 hosts and everything is going fine with the *backup* process. I've downloaded the Amanda/Cygwin client on Zmanda wiki's pages, version 2.5.1p1, that matches the Debian server version we're using.
Like I said, everything goes fine with the backup, but the restore proccess isn't going well... I'm able to contact the server with amrecover, through the 'recovery shell' installed by the setup. Also, I can select the files/directories that need restoration. When I issue the 'extract' command on amrecover's shell, I can see the proccess starting as expected; the changer (well, actually some disks on LVM, configured eith the disk driver) works fine, the tapes are selected and loaded, all OK (so far). The directory tree I've selected is restored fine. The problem appear when restoring the files: I receive error messages like "tar: permission denied" on EVERY file being extracted so that, after proccess completes, all I've got is the directory tree, no files at all. The hosts in question are part of a domain, wich is working fine (Samba PDC). The backups of Linuxes boxes works just fine. I've done some research on Cygwin security issues, which I think is the problem. I can see it's possible to integrate it's environment with a win domain based network, but that should take a considerable effort maintaining the '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/groups' on each Cygwin installation. So, has someone experienced the same problems and want to shed some light?? Or could someone point me the right direction, in case I'm looking to the wrong one? In time 1: I know Amanda isn't yet the 'number one' backup solution to Windows platform, but I wanna give it a try - don't want to install Bacula only to make the work on these hosts. In time 2: apologies for the english, isn't my native language... :-) TIA, Ivo P.S.: haven't yet tried to hack on the 'passwd' or 'groups' files, it's a bit of work, and I tought that maybe someone here could have had experienced this and (hopefully) solved. I know this is a little bit of lazyness, but I don't have much time for experiencing right now, and there are some amount of groups/users. Sorry, folks!!
