From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 3 18:11:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC6CB16A4CE for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 18:11:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from fnu.iranger.com (49dsl180.dsl.spro.net [206.206.49.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB9CB43FCB for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 18:11:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from satz@iranger.com) Received: from [10.0.0.6] (pelar.iranger.com [10.0.0.6]) by fnu.iranger.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hA42Bo3i079586 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 19:11:50 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from satz@iranger.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <40150A01-0E6C-11D8-B07C-000393D1F1FE@iranger.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org From: Greg Satz Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 19:11:50 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) Subject: dantz retrospect backup for freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 02:11:52 -0000 I have been attempting to make Dantz's Retrospect Linux client run under FreeBSD 4.9. It pretty much just "works" as long as you add a /compat/linux/etc/mtab file. The drawback is that only /compat/linux is backed up! Since this is the way it is supposed to work under FreeBSD, we have a problem with a backup application. Ideally you would like to back up from FreeBSD's notion of / and not Linux's. The only idea I can come up with is to make the FreeBSD file system available to Linux via some mount point. The restore operation will be tricky but this is a start. Is there a better way to do this? Thanks, Greg