From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 6 18:52:21 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D90631065694 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:52:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from frontmail.ipactive.de (frontmail.maindns.de [85.214.95.103]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F1528FC2E for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:52:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from mail.vtec.ipme.de (Q7c2d.q.ppp-pool.de [89.53.124.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by frontmail.ipactive.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 865C212883F; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 20:19:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cesar.sz.vwsoft.com (cesar.sz.vwsoft.com [192.168.16.3]) by mail.vtec.ipme.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5802B2E913; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 20:18:46 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <48EA56BB.6040702@vwsoft.com> Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:19:39 +0200 From: Volker User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080930) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Evren Yurtesen References: <48E9E1BB.6020908@ispro.net> In-Reply-To: <48E9E1BB.6020908@ispro.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1223921932.15983@L22lGKvnB1qa2DZLg284Bg X-MailScanner-ID: 5802B2E913.29331 X-VWSoft-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com X-ipactive-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ipactive-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ipactive-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:52:21 -0000 On 12/23/-58 20:59, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > Hello, > > As far as I can see, there is no continuous backup solution for FreeBSD > at the moment. I talked with R1Soft and they seem to not be able to > support FreeBSD and need help. > > Does anybody have free time and skills to give a hand? Please see: > http://forum.r1soft.com/showpost.php?p=3414&postcount=9 Quoting the thread: > and they are usually very busy... and they like to work for hire. Wrong term: Even open source folks need something for living. That's too cheap and I don't suggest supporting a company like this, as they're expecting somebody else to do their job and make profit of it. They're free to use a system like FreeBSD for their products, they're free to modify and redistribute it but they need to do their job and don't expect anybody else to code for them for free. Next quote of thread: > real world competency writing block device drivers for FreeBSD Let me check that out... %ls -l /dev | grep ^b % Well, I guess, nobody is able to do so and it's noted in the handbook or in GNN's "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD operating system". A good read. > I know people who want to switch to using FreeBSD but cant do that > because their backup solution (R1Soft) does not support FreeBSD :( What's wrong with solutions like Bacula? It's working, cross platform, well supported. And now, go ahead and flame me for not doing work for free for other peoples profit but I'm pretty sure there won't be much guys wanting to do that. Volker