Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:34:28 +0300 From: yurtesen@ispro.net To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, yurtesen@ispro.net, "Shaun Amott" <shaun@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Sean Bruno" <sbruno@miralink.com>, "Oliver Fromme" <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Subject: Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20081010023428.87556dt18ejyzf48@mail.ispro.net> In-Reply-To: <200810091411.m99EB0Vo007538@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200810091411.m99EB0Vo007538@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Quoting "Oliver Fromme" <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>: > These features are readily available right now on FreeBSD. > You don't have to code anything. Well with 2 downsides, The fact that I still would need to take full backups once in a while =20 if I do this and Linux users do not have to because the CDP software =20 on Linux does not need to do this. The software expires the old data =20 automatically and you only need a full backup at first run only. The bigger problem is that I have to convert all my filesystems to =20 ZFS. Can one convert UFS2 to ZFS easily even? I dont wanna spend a =20 large part of the year doing such job while Linux users can just do =20 this on 'any' filesystem they use. How am I suppose to compete with =20 companies which use Linux otherwise if I am doing this sort of tasks =20 all the time? Thanks for all the advices but my original question was if somebody =20 can give inside information to a company(for example r1soft) which is =20 writing CDP backup solutions so they could implement such solution on =20 FreeBSD also. Do you know such person? I am not really looking for alternatives because there is none. You =20 cant just expect commercial companies to convert to a new filesystem =20 to add a feature which other OSes manage without going to such =20 measures. Can you imagine the monetary cost if all FreeBSD users had =20 to convert to ZFS (or another filesystem) to take near cdp level =20 backups? This simply would make people think 'I wish I used Linux from =20 the beginning'. Thanks, Evren
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