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 client installed under Cygwin on your Windows
> box: OK, but you have to install Cygwin first; and I'm not sure I
> like this solution, just because I have to install a "Linux
> emulator" on a Windows box (can you imagine yourself installing a
> Wine on your Linux just to make some administrative operations? I don't).
>
> In my case, I have adopted 3 different solutions, depending on
> the boxes I back up:
> 1. Samba
> 2. Cygwin
> 3. backup Windows computers with official Windows backup solutions
>
>
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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.
Too bad NTBackup doesn't do software compression, however.

Josh