> Dan Armbrust wrote: >> Probably more complicated than you are looking for, but I'm pretty sure >> that http://www.bacula.org/ handles windows file attributes. bacula looks pretty good, except it can't restore windows without me first installing windows. since i have a windows 2000 server that came installed (no install CDs), either i need to obtain windows 2000 server install CDs, or i need to first restore the disk from some other medium in order to do a restore from bacula! i can't help but wonder if it would work to install windows 2000 workstation, and then do the bacula restore on that. would i end up with a working windows 2000 server again when i was done? Andrew Zbikowski wrote: > If you don't want to go about setting up Bacula, no problem. Just > setup the Windows backup tool to dump it's backup information to your > samba share. sounds temptingly simple, however if i understand correctly, the windows backup tool will want to write a single huge output file, and offhand i can't think of a way to have that file written offsite without first writing it onsite. i guess i'm hoping bacula will enable me to backup directly to an offsite linux server. Greg Whitley Mott IT Coordinator NonviolentPeaceforce.org