Advice: NFS vs SMB - looking for the voice of experience

2001-04-05 Thread Dave Hecht
I have just a couple M$oft Win2K boxes that I would like my newly installed Amanda system to backup. I do have NFS servers running on them and presently mount the data directory's, via NFS, onto a Linux box. Keeping in mind that I have < 50 GB of data (very little) , and have a 12 hour window fo

Re: Sector Level Backups

2001-04-05 Thread Dave Hecht
naughty bits off the drive images. - Original Message - From: "Alexandre Oliva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Dave Hecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 8:21 PM Subject: Re: Secto

Sector Level Backups

2001-04-04 Thread Dave Hecht
I would like to use "dd" , or some similar tool to make exact images of a drive as a full backup, rather than dump or tar.  Does Amanda have a mechanism to do this?  It is important that the backup tool be able to read at the sector level, regardless of the OS, or whether the sectors are in