From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 8 19:03:55 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 5E43A106568C for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:03:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bakul@bitblocks.com) Received: from mail.bitblocks.com (bitblocks.com [64.142.15.60]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E1108FC08 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:03:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bakul@bitblocks.com) Received: from bitblocks.com (localhost.bitblocks.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.bitblocks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 264C25B4C; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 12:03:54 -0700 (PDT) To: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:18:47 +0200." <86ej2rsdnc.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <48E9E1BB.6020908@ispro.net> <48EA56BB.6040702@vwsoft.com> <48EA8B3A.3090609@ispro.net> <861vysiv9i.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20081007164015.2E3085B29@mail.bitblocks.com> <86ej2rsdnc.fsf@ds4.des.no> Comments: In-reply-to =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= message dated "Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:18:47 +0200." Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:03:54 -0700 From: Bakul Shah Message-Id: <20081008190354.264C25B4C@mail.bitblocks.com> Cc: Volker , Evren Yurtesen , 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: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:03:55 -0000 On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:18:47 +0200 =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= wrote: > Bakul Shah writes: > > "Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav" writes: > > > What really annoys me with this thread is that nobody has provided any > > > information at all that would allow someone to understand what needs to > > > be done and estimate how hard it would be. > > From their http://forum.r1soft.com/CDP.html page: [...] > > You completely missed the mark. I know what R1Soft's product is. What > I want to know is what needs to be done to port it to FreeBSD. Sorry, my mindreader is broken. If this is what you really wanted to know, why not ask R1Soft? -hackers is not going to shed any light on the specifics of R1Soft's product. I replied to say that implementing a similar solution is not hard (I am sure you knew that too but I wasn't responding just to you). It may even be worth doing.