On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 02:55:27PM -0700, Alan Murrell wrote:
> I understand that if I backup using the Zamanda Windows Client ("ZWC"),
> I can't restore a single file; I have to restore the entire backup, then
> extract the resulting archive onto the Windows server. This appears to
> be due to the ZWC using PKZip to archive the files.
>
> If, instead, I backup the files on my Windows server via Samba (and not
> use the ZWC at all), will I be able to recover individual files using
> amrestore?
>
> What sort of performance difference might i expect to see in backing up
> using the ZWC as opposed to over Samba? I know I would lose the ability
> to backup files that are in-use, but anything else?
Can't give a current answer, it has been quite a while
since I used ZWC or amanda over samba. I think it is
still true that ZWC uses Windows "Volume Shadow Copy"
feature. This should enable it to backup some files
that would cause errors over samba. For example,
files open by some other application.
Jon
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