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Date:      Wed, 22 Jan 2003 20:55:29 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jeff Jirsa <jeff@unixconsults.com>
To:        "P. U. Kruppa" <520023893678-0001@t-online.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: back up Win2k workstations?
Message-ID:  <20030122205056.E11768-100000@boris.st.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030123053544.A22659@small.pukruppa.de>

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On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, P. U. Kruppa wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a concept to back up some Win2k workstations on
> a FreeBSD machine. Can this be done and how?

Can it be done: Yes.

The software you'll want to look into is a combination of amanda
(www.amanda.org) and samba (www.samba.org). From the amanda homepage:

"AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a
backup system that allows the administrator of a LAN to set up a single
master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single large capacity
tape drive. AMANDA uses native dump and/or GNU tar facilities and can back
up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Unix.
Recent versions can also use SAMBA to back up Microsoft Windows 95/NT
hosts"

The amanda servers and clients are in the ports (
/usr/ports/misc/amanda-client and /usr/ports/misc/amanda-server) as is
samba (/usr/ports/net/samba).

How: is slightly more complicated, but a decent description seems to be
available at: http://www.coe.tamu.edu/cs/amanda/SAMBA

- Jeff Jirsa



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