[Dspace-general] For Universities with DSpace on Windows

[Michael Trocchia]

I am querying those universities which are running DSpace in a Windows 
environment. Our university is currently exploring using DSpace for 
ETDS.  Any information/responses to the following questions would be 
helpful!

1.  We would be running this in a Windows environment on a Windows 2003 
Standard Edition Server-.  Have there been advantages or disadvantages 
(issues) with DSpace and Windows? Any comments on running this in a 
Windows environment?

2.  How does your institution back it up [actual files, configuration 
files, and metadata]?  I'm probably wording it badly, but our IT staff 
use backup agents such as MS data protection manager for doing most of 
our backups, but since the DSpace database PostgreSQL is open source, 
it's our understanding that those types of backup agents will not work.

Thank you,

Michael Trocchia
James Madison University Libraries
trocchmx at jmu.edu