Author: Christoffer Dahl Petersen <cdp AT trynix DOT dk>
Date: 02 Sep 2003 09:46:58 +0200
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
Author: Christoffer Dahl Petersen <cdp AT trynix DOT dk>
Date: 03 Sep 2003 08:35:52 +0200
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 s
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
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
Author: "Josh Welch" <jwelch AT buffalowildwings DOT com>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:33:35 -0500
I have taken to using NTBackup on my Win2K boxes to back up to a samba share on a box a set up for the purpose. Stuff a couple of big IDE disks in an old Dell desktop and you've got a very cheap NAS.
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? -- Jean-Christian SIMONETTI email: jean-
Anyone on this list interested in being paid to re-do the Windows client? Ideally, I'd want something with an easy-to-use installer. Should work more consistently than the current Windows client, and
Author: "Josh Welch" <jwelch AT buffalowildwings DOT com>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:53:40 -0500
<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, currently two of them. I have the SQL Server do it's backups to the same samba share,
Author: Christophe Kalt <amanda-users AT klb.taranis DOT org>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:35:27 -0400
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,
Author: Eric Siegerman <erics AT telepres DOT com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:35:41 -0400
BackupPC (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/index.html) looks like a possible replacement for MS backup for the first phase of this scheme. It looks as though it could save a lot of disk space compared
Author: "Bort, Paul" <pbort AT tmwsystems DOT com>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 15:41:33 -0400
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 projec