Re: AMANDA and the Windows world

2003-02-13 Thread Christopher Odenbach
Hi, Actually in my experience, you are more likely to see development to support other OSes OUTSIDE of M$. What might be an interesting idea is if there is a freeware/opensource backup/restore program for Windows that could be integrated into the AmandaClient... As a long time amanda user

Re: Amanda and the windows world [Q]

2003-02-13 Thread Dieter Meinert
Does anyone have experience with an amanda = SERVER in a windows environment ? Unfortunately I don't have any Unix/Linux host available. I compiled the complete amanda package under Cygwin 1.3.10, I just don't know how to start the server and how to connect to the client. I used amanda on

Re: Amanda and the windows world [Q]

2003-02-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 08:47:09AM +0100, Dieter Meinert wrote: Does anyone have experience with an amanda = SERVER in a windows environment ? Unfortunately I don't have any Unix/Linux host available. I compiled the complete amanda package under Cygwin 1.3.10, I just don't know how to

Re: AMANDA and the Windows world

2003-02-13 Thread marc . bigler
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Re: Amanda and the windows world [Q]

2003-02-13 Thread Brian White
Does anyone have experience with an amanda = SERVER in a windows environment ? Unfortunately I don't have any Unix/Linux host available. I compiled the complete amanda package under Cygwin 1.3.10, I just don't know how to start the server and how to connect to the client. Hmmm... Having

AMANDA and the Windows world

2003-02-12 Thread marc . bigler
Hello, I wanted to ask how good is AMANDA to backup Windows servers ? One of the few issues I can think of is: - will it backup a windows file owner permissions and rights (ACL) ? - is it possible for AMANDA to restore directly to a Windows server ? - what needs to be put in place to backup

Re: AMANDA and the Windows world

2003-02-12 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 at 12:08pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I wanted to ask how good is AMANDA to backup Windows servers ? One of the few issues I can think of is: - will it backup a windows file owner permissions and rights (ACL) ? - is it possible for AMANDA to restore directly to a Windows

Re: AMANDA and the Windows world

2003-02-12 Thread Richard Morse
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 09:29 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: The cygwin client is pretty new and thus less tested. I'd just like to say that so far, it seems to work. I still need to do a test restore, and I don't know about ACLs, but the signs are that things are working

Re: AMANDA and the Windows world

2003-02-12 Thread Richard Morse
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 12:23 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: No need to wait. The backup is being done by tar on the cygwin client. If it saves ACL info and resets them correctly, then amanda will. Do a test on your cygwin client just by creating and extracting a tar archive. So, I

Re: AMANDA and the Windows world

2003-02-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:20:39PM -0500, Richard Morse wrote: On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 12:23 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: No need to wait. The backup is being done by tar on the cygwin client. If it saves ACL info and resets them correctly, then amanda will. Do a test on your

Re: AMANDA and the Windows world

2003-02-12 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 at 2:20pm, Richard Morse wrote So, I tried this, and you are correct -- the ACLs aren't saved by tar (I guess I was hoping that the cygwin tar would be able to work with this... perhaps in future versions? However, I also did do my test restore. It worked, although the

Re: AMANDA and the Windows world

2003-02-12 Thread Richard Morse
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 02:59 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Actually, getting amanda to use some other program (i.e. not GNUtar or *dump) for backups is not exactly trivial. The (long in coming) DUMPER-API is supposed to fix that, but is still a ways off (probably, I'm not

RE: AMANDA and the Windows world

2003-02-12 Thread Bort, Paul
So, I tried this, and you are correct -- the ACLs aren't saved by tar (I guess I was hoping that the cygwin tar would be able to work with this... perhaps in future versions? However, I also did do my test restore. It worked, although the permissions were, of course, incorrect. So,

Re: AMANDA and the Windows world

2003-02-12 Thread Broderick Wood
Actually in my experience, you are more likely to see development to support other OSes OUTSIDE of M$. What might be an interesting idea is if there is a freeware/opensource backup/restore program for Windows that could be integrated into the AmandaClient... On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:32:45PM