so, any addition notes for win32 backup. possibly it would be
interesting for someone. there are three way to complete
order.

1) amanda-win32 client http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda-win32/
is a natie way. this soft is a port of amanda client to win32
platform. but project died(?) two yers ago in beta stage. i tryed to
use it - false. any kind of problem, which i can't solve bicouse
haven't enough C/C++ expereince. as fact: useless :(

2) backup windows host via smbtar. semi-native way. one trouble: we
need read access from foreign host (amanda server) for all data...and
password for smbtar saved as clear text... iles contain commercial information..
hmm.. if anything got amanda-servers under control - all information can be 
stealed... no my
way.

3) third, and best solution founded: all backup created and crypted on win32
host. we don't need read-on-all access from network. so all backups
secured. not native: backup initiated by third-party program, not
amanda-server.

we need any software like unix 'crond' (i use nncron-lite
http://www.nncron.ru/), and any archivator. my choose - winrar. i
don't use windows scheduler for it. don't ask why. so. crond must run
under account that have read/write permisiion on all data. it's bad,
but more secured than smbtar . and by weekend it run .bat file like this (for 
winrar)

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c:\progra~1\winrar\rar a -ac -idp -x@c:\backup\excl -ow -ri7 \
-pPASSWORDFORCRYPT -r -m1 -ag -ilogl:\others.err -y \
l:\DESTINATIONFILE.rar d:\absolute d:\bill d:\work > l:\others_full.log
---------------

we execute rar with some kind of parameters for full backup, save ntfs
permisiion and clear the archive bit. archive stored in file with name
contained current timestamp.

 and every workdays i run command
like this:

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c:\progra~1\winrar\rar a -ac -idp -x@c:\backup\excl -ow -ri7 \
-pPASSWORD -r -m1 -ag -ilogl:\others_diff.err -y -ao \
l:\DESTINATIONFILE.rar d:\techdocs d:\whiteboard d:\work > l:\others_diff.log
---------------

similar previous, but backing-up only files with archive-bit set. so we
have full backup, and daily differents in timestamped files.

disk l: in my configuration, is a nfs-mounted partition from
amanda-server. you can install samba on amanda-server and store files
to it, or just drop files to local disk, and later retreive it by
smbtar utility from amanda - as your wish. so, if you need restore
files from archive: just extract archive from tape, send it to windows
host and unrar it. manual - but strong stable :)

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Best regards,
 vlad                          mailto:vlad AT ccs DOT ru