> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Michael Stowe > <mst...@chicago.us.mensa.org> wrote: >> >>> > >> This thread started with a request for a "real" Windows client, which I >> considered writing before scripting something, chiefly because I didn't >> want to spend the time to get it working and find I had to redo the >> whole >> thing shortly afterward. Not that I'm entirely sure what I'd do with >> ACLs >> or alternative data streams, but it's certainly possible to back up and >> restore open files, and (in theory) even do a (mostly) bare metal >> recovery. >> > > Has anyone looked at the windows bacula client to see if it would be > possible to make backuppc use it as-is and extract the files for > storage like it does with tar? > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikes...@gmail.com
I looked into it very briefly, and concluded that since the Windows Bacula clients weren't open source ( http://www.bacula.org/en/?page=winbin ) that essentially BackupPC would have to emulate the Bacula protocol (which is documented.) It wouldn't be any worse than FTP, I suppose, but it would be exclusively server side development. The protocol is here: http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/developers/developers/Daemon_Protocol.html I note, however, that the Windows clients aren't free, which kind of killed the idea for me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
