so, any addition notes for win32 backup. possibly it would be interesting for someone. there are three way to complete order.
1) amanda-win32 client http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda-win32/ is a natie way. this soft is a port of amanda client to win32 platform. but project died(?) two yers ago in beta stage. i tryed to use it - false. any kind of problem, which i can't solve bicouse haven't enough C/C++ expereince. as fact: useless :( 2) backup windows host via smbtar. semi-native way. one trouble: we need read access from foreign host (amanda server) for all data...and password for smbtar saved as clear text... iles contain commercial information.. hmm.. if anything got amanda-servers under control - all information can be stealed... no my way. 3) third, and best solution founded: all backup created and crypted on win32 host. we don't need read-on-all access from network. so all backups secured. not native: backup initiated by third-party program, not amanda-server. we need any software like unix 'crond' (i use nncron-lite http://www.nncron.ru/), and any archivator. my choose - winrar. i don't use windows scheduler for it. don't ask why. so. crond must run under account that have read/write permisiion on all data. it's bad, but more secured than smbtar . and by weekend it run .bat file like this (for winrar) ---------------- c:\progra~1\winrar\rar a -ac -idp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:\backup\excl -ow -ri7 \ -pPASSWORDFORCRYPT -r -m1 -ag -ilogl:\others.err -y \ l:\DESTINATIONFILE.rar d:\absolute d:\bill d:\work > l:\others_full.log --------------- we execute rar with some kind of parameters for full backup, save ntfs permisiion and clear the archive bit. archive stored in file with name contained current timestamp. and every workdays i run command like this: ---------------- c:\progra~1\winrar\rar a -ac -idp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:\backup\excl -ow -ri7 \ -pPASSWORD -r -m1 -ag -ilogl:\others_diff.err -y -ao \ l:\DESTINATIONFILE.rar d:\techdocs d:\whiteboard d:\work > l:\others_diff.log --------------- similar previous, but backing-up only files with archive-bit set. so we have full backup, and daily differents in timestamped files. disk l: in my configuration, is a nfs-mounted partition from amanda-server. you can install samba on amanda-server and store files to it, or just drop files to local disk, and later retreive it by smbtar utility from amanda - as your wish. so, if you need restore files from archive: just extract archive from tape, send it to windows host and unrar it. manual - but strong stable :) -- Best regards, vlad mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
