Re: Another Amanda + Win32 backup problem

2003-10-06 Thread Christopher Odenbach
Hi, Thanks Chris it appears you have found my problem. [...] After issuing strings /opt/amanda/libexec/sendbackup | grep amandapass it returns nothing. I assume you have used your path in the statement above? /opt is not the default amanda directory. So back to compiling amanda. I have

RE: Another Amanda + Win32 backup problem

2003-10-05 Thread Jason Tedesco
Thanks Chris it appears you have found my problem. (see below) -Original Message- From: Christopher Odenbach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 30 September 2003 5:14 PM To: Jason Tedesco; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Another Amanda + Win32 backup problem Hi Jason

Another Amanda + Win32 backup problem

2003-09-30 Thread Jason Tedesco
I am trying to backup a win32 host with Amanda and keep running into problems. I compiled Amanda with smbclient full path. When I try executing an amcheck I receive the following error. Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: mymachine.host.org: selfcheck

Re: Another Amanda + Win32 backup problem

2003-09-30 Thread Bert_De_Ridder
14 57.00.90 Fax: +32 14 58.13.25 http://www.peopleware.be Jason Tedesco [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 30/09/2003 08:45 To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Another Amanda + Win32 backup problem I am trying to backup a win32 host with Amanda and keep running

RE: Another Amanda + Win32 backup problem

2003-09-30 Thread Jason Tedesco
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RE: Another Amanda + Win32 backup problem

2003-09-30 Thread Bert_De_Ridder
Kleinhoefstraat 5 B-2440 Geel Tel: +32 14 57.00.90 Fax: +32 14 58.13.25 http://www.peopleware.be Jason Tedesco [EMAIL PROTECTED] 30/09/2003 08:57 To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject RE: Another Amanda + Win32 backup problem Sorry that was just a typo

Re: Another Amanda + Win32 backup problem

2003-09-30 Thread Christopher Odenbach
Hi Jason, I am trying to backup a win32 host with Amanda and keep running into problems. I compiled Amanda with smbclient full path. When I try executing an amcheck I receive the following error. Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING:

Re: Win32 Backup?

2003-03-06 Thread Michael Perry
Anthony A. D. Talltree wrote: I've never had to do this, but an approach that I'd probably persue would be to use Symmantec/Norton Ghost to create occasional disk images that would get xferred via Samba to a *ix filesystem. I'd try real hard to keep important data off of the M$ machine's local

Re: Win32 Backup?

2003-03-06 Thread Anthony A. D. Talltree
I've had weird stuff happen to me when writing across samba mounts -- the files would quietly disappear under the Nethood pseudo-directory, eating up disk space while being inaccessible. Associating the mounts with drive letters seems to avoid this.

Re: Win32 Backup?

2003-03-06 Thread Steve Loughran
One way I have done it is to use MS's backup program to backup to a samba share on a freebsd box. MS backup will happily backup to a samba share. Then I just backup all that stuff using amanda. beware of backing up via NT Backup to a samba share, always verify the contents of the file. I ran

Re: Win32 Backup?

2003-03-06 Thread tobias . bluhm
Steve Loughran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One way I have done it is to use MS's backup program to backup to a samba share on a freebsd box. MS backup will happily backup to a samba share. Then I just backup all that stuff using amanda. beware of backing up via NT Backup to a samba share, always

Re: Win32 Backup?

2003-03-05 Thread philo vivero
I've used Amanda before in a Unix-only shop, but now am interested in backing up Win32 clients. I see Amanda.Org still seems to hold the official line of use smbclient to backup Win32 clients, but there's a port of Amanda client to Win32 at http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda-win32

Re: Win32 Backup?

2003-03-05 Thread Anthony A. D. Talltree
I've never had to do this, but an approach that I'd probably persue would be to use Symmantec/Norton Ghost to create occasional disk images that would get xferred via Samba to a *ix filesystem. I'd try real hard to keep important data off of the M$ machine's local disks.

Win32 Backup?

2003-03-04 Thread philo vivero
Hi, I've used Amanda before in a Unix-only shop, but now am interested in backing up Win32 clients. I see Amanda.Org still seems to hold the official line of use smbclient to backup Win32 clients, but there's a port of Amanda client to Win32 at http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda-win32 which

Re: Win32 Backup?

2003-03-04 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On 4 Mar 2003 at 10:54am, philo vivero wrote I've used Amanda before in a Unix-only shop, but now am interested in backing up Win32 clients. I see Amanda.Org still seems to hold the official line of use smbclient to backup Win32 clients, but there's a port of Amanda client to Win32 at