Hi, Chris Lee,

on Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2004 at 12:46 you wrote to amanda-users:

CL> Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>> Hello, amanda-users,
>> 
CL> -----SNIP----
>> 
>> MS Exchange seems to only be able to dump ONE BIG FAT dumpfile, from
>> which you can only recover ALL the server.
>> 
CL> ----SNIP-----

CL> It would be nice to have a windows client for Amanda with the ability to
CL> accept plugins, then some kind people might start producing plugins that
CL> can back up Exchange and M$SQL etc. the way Microsoft want you to do it.

This sounds like a major development to me ...
AFAIK the number of amanda-hackers willing to do MS-programming is
near to zero.

A first step would be to get a small win-client that exports those
exchange (notice the NAME! especially in this context ;-) ) mails to
what we love: textfiles.

Dumping that stuff would be already possible with AMAMBA ;-)
(combination of AMANDA and Samba).

I am still not much of a programmer, but I think getting this
export-client should be possible with reasonable effort.

-- 
best regards,
Stefan

Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at