Backing up several Windows machines to a Linux server

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sat Jan 22 08:41:12 UTC 2005


On Friday 21 January 2005 23:19, Kam Leo wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 23:02:03 -0500, Gene Heskett
>
><gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>> On Friday 21 January 2005 22:00, Anduin Withers wrote:
>> >> Goto the amanda.org website, scroll down the page quite a ways,
>> >> and you will find a link to the latest 'snapshots', to use the
>> >> virtual tape on a hard drive options, you will need the latest
>> >> in the 2.4.5b1-series, currently (as of yesterday anyway) at
>> >> 2.4.5b1-20041221.tar.gz.
>> >>
>> >> Follow the building instructions, its a bit more than
>> >> ./configure, make, make install.
>> >
>> >Even easier: amanda-2.4.4p3 (comes with FC3) works fine for that
>> > as well.
>>
>> With virtual tapes on a disk?
>>
>> --
>> Cheers, Gene
>
>If I'm not mistaken the OP needs to backup Windows clients. Is there
> a Windows client for Amanda?

There was some noise about a cygwin port on the list about a year ago, 
but I didn't save the url.  A google search might find it, or if you 
ask on the amanda-users at amanda.org list I'm sure someone will 
volunteer it.

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