We have several SANS here. I'm not their manager so I'm not able to really be specific as to brand or whatnot, but I know one of them is setup to replicate itself off-site to a backup SAN, so any hosts storing files on it get those backed up for "free" without Amanda.
Another SAN we have is ISCSI, and for that one, the VMs and hosts using that SAN are all on am Infiniband dedicated network segment which my Amanda server can't reach anyway. For all of those, one host <-> one mount, and I have Amanda configured to backup the files via the one host that mounts it. As the ISCSI SAN is on a restricted-access, dedicated Infiniband 56G network segment, and the Amanda traffic is going out a normal 1G Ethernet interface, the "double-the-traffic" argument doesn't hold up here. If the windows machine can expose the desired files with a secondary share, you can use Amanda to backup the file content. I don't expect that to have any NTFS or registry information, though. I have several windows clients which, for reasons of elderly OS/crappy application software, use such a thing as their only backup process. -- Joi Owen System Administrator Pavlov Media, Inc -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Olivier Nicole Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 3:58 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: amsamba and NTFS permissions "Stefan G. Weichinger" <[email protected]> writes: > Am 25.09.2014 um 17:21 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> >> Additional info: >> >> they can't use the A/ZManda-Windows-Client because the NTFS-share is >> shared from a storage/SAN and not from a dedicated MS Windows Server. >> >> So we have to solve that on the side of the linux server, I assume. > > Does nobody here successfully do that with amanda? You supposedly could run A/ZManda-Windows-Client on a Windows client (one that remotely mounts the NTFS share). It will have a cost because the files are traveling the network twice (from NTFS server to Windows client and from Windows client to Amanda server). Your Windows client could be some virtual machine that is started only for back-up purposes (a virtualbox running from Amanda server, so you "cut off" one network transfer). That is ugly. It depends what is the NAS/storage amde of. Best regards, Olivier --
