On 5/17/06, Gordon J. Mills III <Gordon.Mills AT usa DOT net> wrote:

>
> > Probably most important to me though would be the ability to handle
> > Windows backups better. I know that it is not necessarily Amanda's
> > fault, but the file permissions (ACLs) cannot currently be
> backed up
> > with Amanda. Also, it does not allow exclude lists for windows
> > clients. This should be possible since now smbclient has
> this feature.
>
> Amanda 2.5.1 will support Schily tar (GNU tar) that has
> ability to backup to POSIX ACLs.
> Windows ACLs will be added to Schily tar. So Cygwin clients
> can backup windows ACLs.
> Paddy

Paddy, will it only work when using cygwin client on windows or will it also
be possible using smbclient from the server? I have setup the backup of

Yes. It will only work when Cygwin client.  Native client for Windows is also in
the plan (it will take more time :-()

several windows servers using the smbclient method. I have not yet attempted
a cygwin client, but if it will offer more options it may be worth it. How
much trouble is it to install amanda on cygwin?

See instructions in
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda_running_on_Cygwin_server
You will have to build amanda from the source.

Thanks,
Paddy

Regards,
Gordon

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