Installation/OS Specific Notes/Installing Amanda on Microsoft Windows

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Zmanda Windows Client

Zmanda has released a native windows service, the Zmanda Windows Client, for backing up Windows systems.

Samba

It is also possible to back up Windows system's disks by using SAMBA. Please read the Windows client section of Backup client for more information.

SAMBA may be unable to back up some files due to file locking restrictions. Particularly, paging and registry files usually present problems. Backing up page files is pointless, but registry files are quite important to back up. It is possible to create regular files that contain registry information by using the Regback utility, from the Windows NT Resource Kit. Unfortunately, it is not part of the Windows NT standard distribution, you have to purchase it separately. Thanks to Ernie Oporto <[email protected]> for the tip.

Cygwin

Another possibility is Cygwin, see: Amanda running on Cygwin server.

Shadow Copies

Yet another possibility is to create a Shadow Copy of the files that are in use (available on Windows XP and 2003), or even shadow copies of the whole drives (available on Windows 2003 only) - i.e., you "map" your C: drive as a virtual V: drive, and can read all the files on it, even those locked like registry files. For more info on Shadow Copies, see:

There is still a problem of files that are not owned by the user that accesses the file (i.e., profile directory or any other directory owned only by a user "user" can not be accessed even by admin users).

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