From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 29 16:24:01 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B039C16A4CE for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:24:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35EE743D48 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:24:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id j3TGO0AV033772; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:24:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:24:00 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Damian Sobieralski Message-ID: <20050429162400.GB22365@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050429160057.67602.qmail@web50410.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050429160057.67602.qmail@web50410.mail.yahoo.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NovaNet X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:24:01 -0000 In the last episode (Apr 29), Damian Sobieralski said: > I've got a question about backup software. I recently started a new > position and they already bought a backup package called "NovaNet" > > http://www.network-backup.com/datasheets/overview.html I'm pretty sure NovaStor resells Yosemite's Tapeware product as NovaNet, and Tapeware 7 does support FreeBSD: http://www.yosemitetech.com/Support/os_support.htm I don't know the NovNet<->Tapeware version number mappings, though, or whether the platform support is the same. > Anyways, a couple of questions- > > 1) Can anyone confirm if NovaNet supports a native FreeBSD backup node? > 2) If no to 1, has anyone successfully used it in Linux compatability > mode on a FreeBSD box? > > And one more question: > > Can anyone sugguest a good networked backup solutions (server and > client nodes paradigm) that works on various OS's? The rest of our > unit uses Vertitas but I don't know if they do FreeBSD and/or Linux. > We seem to be the odd man out :( We have a Windows 2003 server backup > master and I hope to have 2-3 FreeBSD client nodes. Veritas NetBackup supports just about any OS you can think of, FreeBSD and Linux included, but is a whole lot more expensive :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com