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?


On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:33:35 -0500
"Josh Welch" <jwelch AT buffalowildwings DOT com> wrote:

> 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


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