On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:23:25 -0400
Galen Johnson <gjohnson AT trantor DOT org> 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 of course from the GNU tar, due to NT 
> >file rights...).
> >
> >amrestore is possible, but I don't like the ability of the client to log in 
> >as root without password on the backup server, so I tested the solution but 
> >did not put it in production. amrestore is also helped by a GUI written in 
> >Python (need to install a Python interpreter on your Windows box, easy way 
> >but not so easy to automatically deploy).
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Have you, or will you, put the changes out for others?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
> >Will be done. See my previous mail ;)
> >  
> >
> Can I assume from what you've been saying that you've actually gotten 
> the amanda-win32 project from sourceforce to compile properly?  What 
> about the selfcheck bug? Or sendsize crashes that were reported?  these 
> questions assume you are using amanda-win32.  I've tried contacting the 
> current maintainer with no success.  All the source files are about 18 
> months old and CVS hasn't been touched in as long.
> 
> Also, what version of amanda have you gotten it to work with?  There was 
> a previous response from someone who couldn't get it to work on the more 
> recent code.
> 
> =G=
> 

Well... You're right, I got the actual state of the Sourceforge project and did 
not touch to anything to the sources. Everything goes 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. sendsize crash ? Well... Er... Er... Er... Where ??? I've had some problems 
with sendsize, but it corrected itself with the "-udp=10080 -no-exit" 
parameters to the amandad.exe program. I did not examine precisely the source 
code but the "-no-exit" seems to be very important...

What I've done with this project? Well... Just got it from Sourceforge and 
installed it on W2K boxes: what I've done is installed it as a WinNT service. I 
am running it with an Amanda 2.4.3b2 server on a Linux box, and no errors 
reported yet (1,5 Go backed up every night). Not checked with omre recent 
versions.


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