[...]
But in the testing so far, we're finding some odd results:
* The actual program that the Win32 client uses to do the backups
appears to be an NT port of tar. But trying to restore a file
made from that backup on a FreeBSD system generates a message saying
that the file does
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:26:37AM +0100, JC Simonetti wrote:
[...]
But in the testing so far, we're finding some odd results:
* The actual program that the Win32 client uses to do the backups
appears to be an NT port of tar. But trying to restore a file
made from that backup
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 04:52:33 -0800
David Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:26:37AM +0100, JC Simonetti wrote:
[...]
But in the testing so far, we're finding some odd results:
* The actual program that the Win32 client uses to do the backups
appears
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:36:46PM +0100, JC Simonetti wrote:
The 2 other solutions are :
...
2. Cygwin and the Amanda source code: very functional but you have to install a
Linux emulator on your Windows box... I don't like the idea (what would you say if I
told you that you have to
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:36:46PM +0100, JC Simonetti wrote:
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 04:52:33 -0800
David Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wasn't aware that the Win32 environment was sufficiently special
that tar archives were unportable between that and normal (UNIX)
environments.
It's
without a full IDE.
Amanda Win32 Sourceforge project IS based on a mingw solution.
, the mingw package would be another way to build
the selfcheck/true executable without a full IDE.
Amanda Win32 Sourceforge project IS based on a mingw solution.
Ahh, nevermind :)
--
Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JG Computing
4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159
to develop in/for the win32 environment.) It
would be Nice(tm) if, aas an additional result, it would be possible
to do an amrecover from the UNIX side against a backup created in the
win32 side and have a reasonable expectation that some arbitrary set
of the files could be restored.
It's
the systems I care about (FreeBSD) and the Microsoft environments
-- as well as seeing the ugly messages about data overruns from the
proprietary product (vs. the clean output in the logs from running
amanda) -- we decided to put a bit more effort into coercing the win32
amanda client to work
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:35:24AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
[Re: win32 amanda client from sourceforge)
But in the testing so far, we're finding some odd results:
* Trying to use the amrestore on the Win32 side, the ls command
doesn't seem to work.
At some point, I
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
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
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
14 57.00.90
Fax: +32 14 58.13.25
http://www.peopleware.be
Jason Tedesco
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Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
30/09/2003 08:45
To
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Subject
Another Amanda + Win32 backup
problem
I am trying to backup a win32 host with Amanda and
keep running
Sorry
that was just a typo, they do have 2 slashes in
amandapass
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Tel: +32 14 57.00.90
Fax: +32 14 58.13.25
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Jason Tedesco
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Subject
RE: Another Amanda + Win32
backup problem
Sorry that was just a typo
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
I also looked at the project on sourceforge for the Win32 client. The task
that I found too daunting to contemplate when I tried this was interfacing
to the Win32 file system. The win32 client project included a TAR that they
claimed worked on NT and picked up ACLs. So really the remaining task
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:19:58PM +0200, Uwe Beger wrote:
All my important win boxes (actually only Win2K) do a standard M$ backup on
a samba share, which is backed up by amanda.
Advantages: immediate recovery possible
Disadv.: disk space
BackupPC
-up
| reimplementation, or what language it's in.
You should.. this shouldn't be a reimplementation, just a
port. The old win32 client was kind of a port, but since it
was done separately and not merged, it drifted off the unix
code.
Not fun to do, i started looking into it a while back
You have 3 ways to backup Windows by Amanda:
1. Win32 client: good luck, since its development has been stopped 2 years ago
2. Windows shares and Samba client on your Amanda box: not so good because of the
rights of the files that are bot backed up
3. Amanda standard client installed under Cygwin
Hi Jon!
Thank you for your reply!
Does that mean that it isn't possible to backup Windows Client with Amanda?
Ones again, thank you very much for your reply!
- Christoffer
tir, 2003-09-02 kl. 17:33 skrev Jon LaBadie:
Not an authoritative answer by any means, so I make it off list.
I prefere #3
All my important win boxes (actually only Win2K) do a standard M$ backup on
a samba share, which is backed up by amanda.
Advantages: immediate recovery possible
Disadv.: disk space
At 13:26 03.09.2003, JC Simonetti wrote:
You have 3 ways to backup Windows by Amanda:
1. Win32 client
JC Simonetti said:
You have 3 ways to backup Windows by Amanda:
1. Win32 client: good luck, since its development has been
stopped 2 years ago
2. Windows shares and Samba client on your Amanda box: not so
good because of the rights of the files that are bot backed up
3. Amanda standard
by Amanda:
1. Win32 client: good luck, since its development has been
stopped 2 years ago
2. Windows shares and Samba client on your Amanda box: not so
good because of the rights of the files that are bot backed up
3. Amanda standard client installed under Cygwin on your Windows
box: OK
language it's in.
Any takers? Approximate asking price to do the job? Anyone else want
to chip in money to make this happen?
JC Simonetti said:
You have 3 ways to backup Windows by Amanda:
1. Win32 client: good luck, since its development has been stopped 2
years ago
2. Windows shares and Samba
JC Simonetti said:
Concerning you and Uwe Beger, could you please tell me the
approximative size of your Windows backups per day? Do you back
up a production site, workstations?
snip
Okay, I lied a little bit here, I don't do it all via NTBackup. These are
SQL Server boxes I'm backing up,
Hi I have tried the Amanda win32 Client. My question is: can I only do a backup of an entire drive and not a specified folder?
Best regards
Christoffer
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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 http
-Original Message-
From: Jim Buttafuoco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 6:14 PM
To: Paolo Supino; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: amanda-win32 project
Paolo,
I tried many times to get amanda-win32 to work. The port is very old and
doesn't look like anyone
Paolo,
I tried many times to get amanda-win32 to work. The port is very old and doesn't
look like anyone is working on it
currently (I haven't looked lately). I decided to rewrite my the code from scratch.
I am having some problems with the
current amanda server that should be worked out
Hi
Does anyone have any information on the usability status of the
amanda-win32
project?
Paolo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Galen Johnson wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings,
I am about to attempt to archive my Win32 hosts with amanda. I was
wondering what the list users experience has been with samba and/or the
Win32 amanda client.
Thank you,
Andrew
Don't know. I use it for DB dumps, so I want a full backup every time
anyway.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ahall;secureworks.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 2:22 PM
To: Galen Johnson
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Win32
On Thu
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Galen Johnson wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings,
I am about to attempt to archive my Win32 hosts with amanda. I was
wondering what the list users experience has been with samba and/or the
Win32 amanda client.
Thank you,
Andrew
I've had great
, but that was
mostly my lack of SAMBA knowledge.
3. NFS: There is an NFS server implementation available from Microsoft as
part of Unix Services for Windows. In theory, you could NFS mount and
backup with tar. It appears that most people use SAMBA instead of sending
more money to Redmond.
4. Amanda-Win32 client: I
Greetings,
I am about to attempt to archive my Win32 hosts with amanda. I was
wondering what the list users experience has been with samba and/or the
Win32 amanda client.
Thank you,
Andrew
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings,
I am about to attempt to archive my Win32 hosts with amanda. I was
wondering what the list users experience has been with samba and/or the
Win32 amanda client.
Thank you,
Andrew
I've had great luck with Samba. I have avoided the win32 client mainly
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 at 9:59pm, Jason Hines wrote
This is a pretty heavy traffic list, so I won't bore you all with my
setup details and planned usage for Amanda, but I'm about to install the
new Amanda 2.4.3 on a RH7.3 server (Anyone working on RPMs btw?) and had
some questions.
Source is
- Original Message -
From: Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
Source is the preferred way to install amanda.
Yours maybe, not mine. :) Seriously, if I have a reputable source of an
RPM, why is this less desirable than going to the source?
Doug
--
Doug Meredith
Skyridge
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 at 8:56am, Doug Meredith wrote
- Original Message -
From: Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
Source is the preferred way to install amanda.
Yours maybe, not mine. :) Seriously, if I have a reputable source of an
RPM, why is this less desirable than
Hi,
This is a pretty heavy traffic list, so I won't bore you all with my
setup details and planned usage for Amanda, but I'm about to install the
new Amanda 2.4.3 on a RH7.3 server (Anyone working on RPMs btw?) and had
some questions.
* What is the status (if any) of any clients written for
On Thu 19 Sep 02 16:32, Christophe Kalt wrote:
Also, it seems that it would be much less work to actually
port the existing (UNIX) amanda source (at least or at most?;)
the client parts. Having a separate project really doesn't
seem right.
Erm... ever tried to port code from Unix to
Brian,
Tried that, but there is alot of UNIXism in amanda. I did go the cygwin route a
couple of years ago. It kind of
worked. I am currently rewriting the whole client side in perl. To get it to work
you just have to download
ActiveState perl and my script, that's it. I am also looking
On Sep 19, Brian Jonnes wrote:
| On Thu 19 Sep 02 16:32, Christophe Kalt wrote:
| Also, it seems that it would be much less work to actually
| port the existing (UNIX) amanda source (at least or at most?;)
| the client parts. Having a separate project really doesn't
| seem right.
|
| Erm...
?
Jim
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Galen Johnson wrote:
Hello gang,
A while back I had sent a request regarding backing up windows machines
without having to deal with samba. Someone had responded with the win32
Amanda client on sourceforge. I have looked it up and it seems like
e back I had sent a request regarding backing up windows machines without having to deal with samba. Someone had responded with the win32 Amanda client on sourceforge. I have looked it up and it seems like it'll do what I want. However, it hasn't been touched in 18 months. Is anyone current
-win32 looked promising, but nothing's been
happening with it for a long time as people have mentioned.
And it is based on the PW32 SF project which is in the same
state of abandonment as amanda-win32, so you're actually
looking at 2 projects to maintain, not just one.
Also, it seems that it would
well.
For your bugs :
1. selfcheck bug is not a bug, it's just that selfcheck is not
provided in the Win32 version. If you are suck with the amcheck
errors, do the same thing as me : selfcheck.c : int main() {return
0;}, and if you are lazy compiling such a thing, I've attached it
here.
2
is not
provided in the Win32 version. If you are suck with the amcheck
errors, do the same thing as me : selfcheck.c : int main() {return
0;}, and if you are lazy compiling such a thing, I've attached it
here.
2. sendsize crash ? Well... Er... Er... Er... Where ??? I've had
some problems with sendsize
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:23:25 -0400
Galen Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
JC Simonetti wrote:
amrecover is possible. You extract the tarball archive on your backup server and
upload it to the Windows box, and there you untar it with the WinTar provided with
Win32 Amanda (different
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:02:09 -0400 (EDT)
Samuel Nicolary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Galen Johnson wrote:
Hello gang,
A while back I had sent a request regarding backing up windows machines
without having to deal with samba. Someone had responded with the win32
:
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:02:09 -0400 (EDT)
Samuel Nicolary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Galen Johnson wrote:
Hello gang,
A while back I had sent a request regarding backing up windows machines
without having to deal with samba. Someone had responded with the win32
Amanda
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:35:57AM +0200, JC Simonetti wrote:
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:02:09 -0400 (EDT)
Samuel Nicolary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Galen Johnson wrote:
I downloaded this package but have been unable to get it to work - anyone
using it successfully?
:02:09 -0400 (EDT)
Samuel Nicolary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Galen Johnson wrote:
Hello gang,
A while back I had sent a request regarding backing up windows machines
without having to deal with samba. Someone had responded with the win32
Amanda client
, in production. Everything goes well :)
Important follow-ups:
Can you also amrecover/amrestore?
amrecover is possible. You extract the tarball archive on your backup server and
upload it to the Windows box, and there you untar it with the WinTar provided with
Win32 Amanda (different of course
JC Simonetti wrote:
amrecover is possible. You extract the tarball archive on your backup server and
upload it to the Windows box, and there you untar it with the WinTar provided with
Win32 Amanda (different of course from the GNU tar, due to NT file rights...).
amrestore is possible, but I
Hello gang,
A while back I had sent a request regarding backing up windows machines
without having todeal with samba. Someone had responded with the win32
amanda client on sourceforge. I have looked it up and it seems like
it'll do what I want. However, it hasn't been touched in 18 months
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Galen Johnson wrote:
Hello gang,
A while back I had sent a request regarding backing up windows machines
without having to deal with samba. Someone had responded with the win32
Amanda client on sourceforge. I have looked it up and it seems like
it'll do what I
Has anyone been able to restore with the amanda-win32 client?
The backup appears to be going well but when I try to restore I am
unable to pull up the index through the amrestore-gui client.
here is the amindexd.debug file
amindexd: debug 1 pid 8506 ruid 28 euid 28 start time Mon Jul 22
15:13
Hi! How stable is the Win32 Amanda Client found on SourceForge? I have a few
NT/Win2K boxes that I would like to add to my backup, and I'm looking at the
different options available...
Thanks,
Ricky
-
Richard MorseSystem
Saw it on Sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda-win32/
Anyone tried it?
--
|Colin Smith: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:53:40AM -0500, Chris Noon wrote:
Hello all,
I'm trying to get the win32 client up and running. I followed Kurt Yoder's
instructions (below), but amcheck is still timing out. I'm almost certain
that it has to do with the tcp/ip ports amanda is using. My server
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:46:28AM +1100, Jason Thomas wrote:
no you just want the udp port that it listens on. and maybe the tcp
port. try:
start amandad -udp=10800 -no-exit
sorry wrong port: 10080
msg08936/pgp0.pgp
Description: PGP signature
Hello all,
I'm trying to get the win32 client up and running. I followed Kurt Yoder's
instructions (below), but amcheck is still timing out. I'm almost certain
that it has to do with the tcp/ip ports amanda is using. My server was
compiled with the following:
--with-portrange=5,50100
Wayne Richards wrote:
I've got the Win32 client setup and running in a console window on an NT box
running NT4.0 SP6a. It works well. I've also setup amanda as a service
according to the instructions. However, the service does not start. It hangs
for a while and then gives an error
in one of your drives
-move the amanda folder into it; path to binaries should be
\usr\amanda\bin and so forth
-copy pw32.8.dll from the bin folder to libexec and sbin folders
-copy \usr\amanda\share\amanda-win32-clients\.amandahosts to
\usr\amanda\etc\amanda\
-add your amanda master to the \usr\amanda
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