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 I can pretty well remember that this 
requirement has been discussed quite often in the past...

If you have a look at the sourceforge-project "Amanda Backup Win32 
Clients" (which has been abbandonned since 2001), there you can find a 
small program called "nttar", which nicely backs up (and restores) nt 
acls. I recently tested it - looked quite good.

I think it should not be too hard to code a wrapper around this (or to 
integrate some changes into the source) to make it react like gnutar - 
and then to integrate it into amanda.


Regards,

Christopher (who would love to see amanda one day back up windoze boxes 
natively)