Brett,

Today, Amanda has extremely limited support for database and other application 
backups. You can't use the API interface, but you can create scripts to dump 
the database somewhere, and then back up that dumped file. Alternatively, 
with some databases you can just backup the raw data files, and on restore it 
will clean things up via the journal.

The good news is that support for these programs is coming: With the 
forthcoming Application API, it will be very easy to create plugins to dump 
any database, directory, appliance, etc., that you can shake a stick at.

Cheers,

--Ian

On Thursday 09 February 2006 10:56 pm, Brett Marlowe wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>
>
> I'm looking for a way to back up several different Microsoft
> applications (Exchange 2003, SQL Server, Active Directory) as well as
> interfacing Amanda with Oracle RMAN. File level backups via Samba won't
> quite cut it; file locking issues, etc. I thought I read somewhere
> (SysAdmin magazine) that there is a windows agent but I can't seem to
> find it anywhere. Is there a good reference for how these special cases
> can be handled?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brett

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