There's amanda-win32 at sourceforge. I'm just in testing phase right now, 
takes a little work to put the pieces together, and I still need to figure 
out how to automate an install as much as possible. But has a small 
footprint and seems efficient.


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toby bluhm
philips medical systems, mr development, cleveland, ohio
tobias.bluhm AT philips DOT com
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Brian Kennedy <kennedy AT essig DOT com>

>Is Jim Buttafuco still out there?  He said he had rewritten the amanda 
>client in perl to run on windows machines and wanted to release it a few 
>weeks ago.  I got real excited and then he dissapeared.
>
>If that's fallen through, does anyone have suggestions on backing up 
>windows machines that has nothing to do with samba?  Having engineers as 
>users is troublesome, they know enough to THINK they know what they're 
>doing.  Commonly they change permisions so my backup user cannot access 
>the files to back them up, so I need something that can run as a client 
>process on the machine as local Administrator to bypass such nonsense.
>
>Steve Bertrand wrote:
>
>>I have always had problems backing up windows shares with amanda, so I
>>just continued to use Veritas for them, until I found an easy way to do
>>it.  If you mount the windows share into the Unix file system, it seems
>>to be far more reliable, as well as faster and easier to do:
>>
>># mount -t smbfs //winserver/share /mnt/mntpoint
>>
>>then add an entry for the mntpoint in amanda's disklist entry.
>>
>>Hope this makes someones life easier!
>>
>>Steve Bertrand