Hi all, Please correct me if I'm wrong but, as I'm sure has been mentioned before on this list, amanda is a backup management tool - not a backup utility in itself.
What is needed for Windows is a high quality backup utility (preferably Open Source and free, but not mandatory) that can stream it's data through the pipe that amanda provides back to the backup server. Unfortunately, backup utilities on Windows tend to be expensive monolithic entities that don't provide that flexibility, or if they do then the stream format islikely to be proprietary, making indexing impossible for amanda. Hence people use samba (so that they can use Unix backup utils from a Unix box) or gnu tar running in a Unix environment on the Windows box (UWin or Cygwin). I imagine porting the Amanda client to Windows is possible, but that will only provide a local end for the pipe. You will still need a reliable and Windows compatible backup/restore utility. Given that even the commercial Windows backup utilities rarely get it 100% right, I suspect that this is not an easy ask. Regards. Ross Johnson (a very happy amanda user - thanks) Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 18 July 2002 16:16, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > >>On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >>>On Thursday 18 July 2002 12:33, Marc Mengel wrote: >>> >>>>Amanda-hackers -- shouldn't we have a link to their project on >>>>the main Amanda page, next to the SAMBA links? >>>> >>>>Marc >>> >>>Much as we'ed like to be a bit political here, this being >>>primarily a *x type list, I have to agree with Marc. Only by >>>inviting the windows users in can we make it 100% compatible on >>>a faster timetable, and widen the userbase of amanda. >> >>I strongly agree. Good tape drives and tapes are expensive. >>There is a strong incentive to find one backup system that will >>handle all your backup needs. > > >>"The samba stuff sorta-kinda works", > > > Smile when you say that, pardner. Samba's broken handling of file > modification dates leaves much to be desired. I used to backup the > other machine via samba links, but now I just rsync it to local > scratchpad dirs about an hour before amanda runs. Big drives are > good for something. :-) > > Now I don't see page after page of 'file changed while we read it' > messages from amanda anymore. So, I don't even call that 'sorta' > working. > > >>but having a good client that runs directly on M$ os's will >>enable a lot more folks to choose amanda. > > > On that we're in violent agreement Mitch. > -- +-------------------------+---+ | Ross Johnson | | "Come down off the cross | Management & Technology |___| We can use the wood" - Tom Waits | Building 11 | | University of Canberra | eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ACT 2601 | WWW: http://public.ise.canberra.edu.au/~rpj/ | AUSTRALIA | +-----------------------------+
