Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 17:29:53 -0500 (CDT) From: scotty@klement.dstorm.net To: Donald Burr of Borg <dburr@borg-cube.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <FreeBSD-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Linux Emulation in 4.5-REL (or 5.0-CURRENT) and Arkeia? Message-ID: <20020520172520.F95817-100000@grungy.dstorm.net> In-Reply-To: <20020519154111.L72879-100000@borg-cube.com>
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Hmmmm.... I don't know anything about Arkeia, but here's another suggestion: What we do where I work is use a PicoBSD disk to back up the Windows PCs. We just boot up PicoBSD, mount the MS-DOS drive, and use tar to back it all up. This comes in handy because we don't need to reinstall Windows, or try to get Network support running under Windows in order to do a restore. When a drive dies, we put in the new drive, partition & format it, then boot another PicoBSD to do the restore. Everything restores exactly as it was before. Just a thought... On Mon, 20 May 2002, Donald Burr of Borg wrote: > Hello, > > I am at a point where I need to re-think the backup strategy for my little > home network. One of the items that I need to change is my tape drive: > with hard drives growing in size, my dinky little 10GB Travan NS20 just > doesn't cut it anymore. A friend of mine is offering to sell me his > (lightly used, still in great condition) Ecrix VXA-1 tape drive and a > couple of tapes, at a really good price, and after giving it some thought, > I decided to take him up on the offer. > > We have a couple of computers here, but only one of them (the server, > running 4.5-REL) has the SCSI card in it. Even if the other computers had > SCSI cards, I would prefer not to have to move the drive between them. > So, network backups are something of interest to me. Of course, with > UNIX-ish systems, network backups are a snap. It's the Windows machines > I'm concerned about (yes, unfortunately, we still use Windows sometimes). > > To deal with the Windows boxen, I've been looking at Arkeia > (http://www.arkeia.com/), which is an excellent client-server based > network backup system. And, conveniently enough, they offer a FREE > version, that will work with 1 tape server and 2 client machines. What > luck! > > The only problem is that the backup server program (the program that > needs to run on the machine with the tape attached to it) runs under > Linux. And I have no desire to convert my already-perfectly-working > FreeBSD based server to run Linux. > > But, of course, FreeBSD has the excellent Linux compatibility layer... > > So I was wondering: Is the FreeBSD Linux-compatibility layer in > 4.5-RELEASE (or -STABLE) good enough to run Arkeia tape backup software? > If not, then how about CURRENT? > > Thanks in advance for your time and advice. > -- > Donald Burr of Borg <dburr@borg-cube.com> | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! > WWW: http://www.borg-cube.com/ ICQ #16997506 | http://www.freebsd.org/ > P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 \----------------------------- > Phone: (805)563-0672 Present Day... Present Time! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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