From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 12 17:53:30 2003 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 967C037B401 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:53:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from dfw-gate2.raytheon.com (dfw-gate2.raytheon.com [199.46.199.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F0D943F1E for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:53:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wgianopoulos@raytheon.com) Received: from ds02e00.directory.ray.com (ds02e00.directory.ray.com [147.25.130.245]) by dfw-gate2.raytheon.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0D1rIhK023467; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 19:53:19 -0600 (CST) Received: from ds02e00.directory.ray.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ds02e00.directory.ray.com (8.12.6/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h0D1rG95024068; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 01:53:17 GMT Received: from eoits2.eo.ray.com (eoits2.eo.ray.com [138.125.164.4]) by ds02e00.directory.ray.com (8.12.6/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h0D1rDeh024050; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 01:53:14 GMT Received: from wagpc (dfw5800-ppp-253-192.ext.ray.com [138.126.253.192]) by eoits2.eo.ray.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA17403; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 20:53:11 -0500 (EST) From: "William Gianopoulos" To: "'Dan Nelson'" Cc: Subject: RE: LINUX sysinfo syscall Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 20:53:05 -0500 Message-ID: <000201c2baa6$85fddea0$0100a8c0@wagpc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 Importance: Normal In-reply-to: <20030112234249.GB95625@dan.emsphone.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK sounds like the answer is to not bother. Kind of what I suspected. The tapedrive was not going to be a problem I was only trying to get the workgroup option to work to back it up via TCP/IP to the Windows/XP system with the tapedrive on it. I guess I'll just stick with my current backup method. The other drive on the system runs windows so I just mount it and backup stuff to it and then do the tape backups from there. Just makes it a 2 step 2 OS boot thing to restore stuff from tape though. -- William A. Gianopoulos IT Security Engineering Raytheon Company -----Original Message----- From: Dan Nelson [mailto:dnelson@allantgroup.com] Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 6:43 PM To: William Gianopoulos Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LINUX sysinfo syscall In the last episode (Jan 12), William Gianopoulos said: > This has probably been asked before, but I could not find any info > searching the archives. I am trying to run the Linux version Tapeware > from Yosemite under FreeBSD 4.1. It fails because the Linux syscall > sysinfo is not implemented. My questions are: > > 1- Is there some other port/package or option I should be using? > > 2- Would a later version of FreeBSD fix this? > > 3- Should I just give up? You will face two other problems once you get it actually running: * You won't be able to use it as a device server, since Tapeware sends raw SCSI requests to /dev/sg* on Linux. The equivalent for FreeBSD would be to use /dev/pass* devices, and there is no emulation layer. * Linux emulated programs always search /compat/linux/ before /, so if you ask to have "/bin" backed up it will back up /compat/linux/bin instead of /bin, for example. I don't know if there is a useful workaround, since Tapeware is smart enough to not follow symlinks (otherwise you could ccreate a symlink at /compat/linux/realroot pointing to /, and ask Tapeware to back up "/realroot") Tapeware is great software, but I don't think they are a large enough company to be able to maintain a port to FreeBSD. I think you can tell Tapeware to back up NFS mountpoints, so you might be able to back up the FreeBSD system by mounting it from another Linux box (or a Windows one if the BSD one is running samba) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message