Hi, Joshua, on Mittwoch, 17. März 2004 at 23:29 you wrote to amanda-users:
JBL> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 at 4:08pm, Michael Kahle wrote >> Has there been any discussion or development on an Amanda client that can >> run on a Windows box? I have never looked at the source for Amanda nor the >> windows backup API, so this might be a stupid question. I just thought >> asking would be a good starting point. >> >> The Amanda/samba solution does not work well for my Exchange Server. It >> also has limited ability to filter out files that I do not want backed up. >> It is very limiting to have to explicitly exclude files or directories when >> doing a samba backup. I have quite a few NT servers that I would love to >> backup with Amanda and ax the crappy Backup Exec program we are using. But >> with functionality being where it is currently in Amanda, I am afraid I have >> no choice. JBL> Recent releases compile under cygwin... ;-) Michael, as you may read in another thread of today, the excluding-topic is a hot one, you are right. As I promised in the other thread I have contacted the Samba-Team to answer our questions regarding this exclusion topic. As soon as we have answers to this we will look for a better solution to this. cygwin may be be a help inbetween. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
