> In the spirit of slightly-disagreeing-with-David, which seems to be > running rampant among the employees of Sine Nomine Associates today:
Hey, it's supposed to be a free country . . . but I digress...8-( > 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) It actually only needs Backup Operator privileges, not Administrator. > and the machine that does > the smbclient connection needs that account's password stored in > cleartext (though not world-readable) on it. True, however see above. With Backup Operator privs, this is somewhat less of a big deal. > 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. Well, I seem to remember you saying something about being bored.....8-) -- db
