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 project included a TAR that they
claimed worked on NT and picked up ACLs. So really the remaining task is a
TCP/IP daemon that can accept and execute commands from the AMANDA server.
Maybe I'll dig up some of my old Perl scripts...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christophe Kalt [mailto:amanda-users AT klb.taranis DOT org]
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:35 AM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Re: Amanda win32 Client
> 
> 
> On Sep 03, Kurt Yoder wrote:
> | 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
> | file restores should be simple. I don't care if it's a ground-up
> | reimplementation, or what language it's in.
> 
> 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, i started looking into it a while back, but the
> best approach by far.
>