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://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda-win32 which appears to have
> about 5-15 downloads daily for the last week or two.
> 
> What can you tell me about the Win32 port of Amanda client software? Is
> it appropriate for backing up a heterogenous Win'95, Win'98, Win'XP,
> Win'2K network? What are the 'gotchas'?

I can't tell you much, but I can tell that the official 2.4.4 version 
supports the cygwin environment.  There have been a number of messages on 
this recently -- search the archives.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University