RE: cygwin & spaces in disklist directory

2003-06-11 Thread Gregor Ibic
in ideal environment you could boot your PC remotly with network boot, that boots partimage create a remote disk image and back this file with amanda. what do you think? regards, gregor

Re: cygwin & spaces in disklist directory

2003-06-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
Martin, Jeremy wrote: I'm not using amanda to back up any Windows boxes, but on some of our Windows boxes that do need backed up, using NovaNet Web Backup which does not support backing up the Sytem State like Backup Exec does, I just use the built in Backup tool to do this. Start / Programs / Acce

RE: cygwin & spaces in disklist directory

2003-06-11 Thread Martin, Jeremy
> No, they are not viruses, they are batch files written by me > to backup and restore the Windows registry. But if Windows > thinks backing up its registry is a virus behavior... ;-) I'm not using amanda to back up any Windows boxes, but on some of our Windows boxes that do need backed up, usi

Re: cygwin & spaces in disklist directory

2003-06-11 Thread JC Simonetti
Oh... It seems that "tar" files are also refused by Norton Antivirus. At this point I won't rename my files with "txt" or "png" extension or anything that could go through your AV, and/or tar/gzip/dd them, I give up. Sorry... Consider revising your antivirus parameters, guys... On Wed, 11 Jun 2

Re: cygwin & spaces in disklist directory

2003-06-11 Thread JC Simonetti
Sorry guys, I would have been aware that Outlook and other Exchange softwares would be afraid of my previous attachments since they were 2 ".bat" files... So in case of someone could not get them and would have to get them, I've tar'ed and reattached them here, just in case. No, they are not vir

Re: cygwin & spaces in disklist directory

2003-06-11 Thread JC Simonetti
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:48:35 -0400 (EDT) barryc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >JC Simonetti wrote: > >Thus there is only one way to backup the loaded hives (and only one to restore > > them): using 2 Windows programs available in the Windows Resource Kit: > >_ regback.exe > >_ regrest.exe > >I cann

Re: cygwin & spaces in disklist directory

2003-06-11 Thread barryc
>JC Simonetti wrote: >Thus there is only one way to backup the loaded hives (and only one to restore > them): using 2 Windows programs available in the Windows Resource Kit: >_ regback.exe >_ regrest.exe >I cannot join them to this mail since they are not free, you will have to buy > the Resource K

Re: cygwin & spaces in disklist directory

2003-06-11 Thread JC Simonetti
Hi! Concerning the backup of the Windows Hives, I've made a brainstorm using MS documentation (ouch my head). So this is the result. The Windows Hives are composed of many files: _ %windir%\system32\cache\* for the system hives _ ~user\ntuser.dat for the user hive The system hives are always loade

Re: cygwin & spaces in disklist directory

2003-06-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
Andy Howell wrote: ln -s '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings' /cygdrive/c/DocsAndSettings did the trick. Recovery works fine as well. Now all I have to do is figure out some permission problems with some NTUSER.DAT and related files, and I'll be all set. Not possible; windows keep these open

Re: cygwin & spaces in disklist directory

2003-06-10 Thread Andy Howell
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:08:23PM -0500, Andy Howell wrote: Hello, I am trying to get the amanda client running under cygwin on win2k. amcheck doesn't like spaces in the directory in disklist. I am trying to do something like win2kpc /cgydrive/c/Documents and Settin

Re: cygwin & spaces in disklist directory

2003-06-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:08:23PM -0500, Andy Howell wrote: > Hello, > >I am trying to get the amanda client running under cygwin on win2k. > amcheck doesn't like spaces in the directory in disklist. I am trying to > do something like > > win2kpc /cgydrive/c/Documents and Settings srv

cygwin & spaces in disklist directory

2003-06-09 Thread Andy Howell
Hello, I am trying to get the amanda client running under cygwin on win2k. amcheck doesn't like spaces in the directory in disklist. I am trying to do something like win2kpc /cgydrive/c/Documents and Settings srv-comp-user-tar There does not seem to be any way to escape the spaces. Gla