In the spirit of slightly-disagreeing-with-David, which seems to be running rampant among the employees of Sine Nomine Associates today:
> Amanda works *very* well with these tools, which gives us a > very nice complete open-source backup solution for Windows, most Unix and > Linux releases, and limited support for CMS minidisks using mainframe based > tape resources at very low cost, available *now*. I feel obligated to point out that Windows support isn't quite as complete as it is for the Unixes and friends. Basically you have two options. The first--which is what we use internally--is to use smbclient to back up Windows shares. This has a couple of disadvantages. You need to create an Amanda backup user in NT with Administrator privileges (because it has to be able to set the Archived attribute on each file it touches) and the machine that does the smbclient connection needs that account's password stored in cleartext (though not world-readable) on it. The second is to use the Cygwin Win32 tools to actually compile the Amanda client tools. Enrico Bernardini has a HOWTO on this subject. The downside is that, as far as I know, there's no binary distribution of it, which means you need not just the cygwin runtime, but the cygwin development tools. Now, having those around is a good thing, but it's not something you can reasonably expect everyone to have. Adam
