Am 06.10.2014 um 23:51 schrieb Joi L. Ellis: > 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.
sorry for the late reply. Thanks for your posting ... they solved it via plain amsamba-DLE already. And it works ;-) Stefan
