Du-Wayne Rood wrote:
Quick one, can amanda backup open files on windows using samba, and if
No.
not how can i backup open files on amanda ??
I do it the other way around. I create shares on a unix/linux server and run samba on the server. Everybody uses these shares to store their data. (Yes, this gives problems with e.g. Outlook users etc, who have to modify the defaults to store the mail on the share etc. and laptop users who _need_ data on their local drive, but laptops are not around at night when amanda runs anyway.) Then I make the backups with amanda from the unix-host: no problems with open files, and much faster too. Some shares do reside on Windows-servers, but I try to keep most of them without write access; this avoids the open shares problems. Does there exist a native Windows program that can backup open files? The standard backup program on e.g. win2000 can't (but most pc users are not aware of that problem :-). ps. I'm not a windows specialist, I just have many windows users. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********************************************************************** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***********************************************************************
